Louis Kahlenberg

Louis Albrecht Kahlenberg (20 January 1870 – 18 March 1941) was an American chemist who contributed to electrochemistry, the study of ionic compounds, electrolytic disassociation of salts and studies in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Kahlenberg was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin where his father Albert and Bertha had immigrated from Germany.

He then went to the University of Leipzig, studying under Wilhelm Ostwald and received a Ph.D. in 1895 for his work on the solubility of copper and lead tartarates.

During World War I, he was opposed to the American involvement leading to his demotion in the chemistry department from the position of head in 1919.

[6][7][8][9] Kahlenberg married Lillan Belle Heald in 1896 and they had three children, including Herman who also studied chemistry under his father and began the Kahlenberg Laboratories where he produced a suturing material called "Equisetene".