Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a chemist. Kolbe was born in Elliehausen near Hanover, Germany. He became an assistant to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen at the University of Marburg in 1842, after studying chemistry with Friedrich Wöhler. Wikipedia
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