Richard Lorenz (chemist)

Richard Lorenz (13 April 1863 in Vienna – 23 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main) was an Austrian chemist.

He studied chemistry at the Universities of Vienna and Jena, receiving his doctorate in 1888 with a dissertation on the valence of boron, "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Valenz des Bors".

After graduation, he worked as an assistant in the biological institute at the University of Rostock.

[1] In 1896 he was named an associate professor of electrochemistry at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zurich.

He is remembered for his work involving the electrochemical behavior of molten salts.