Abstract
his measuring pipette. A study of his life, however, shows that this unusual man has not been given the credit he deserves for many improvements on methods and types of apparatus he found in use. The Liebig condenser was improved and popularized by that famous chemist, but was invented by his friend Mohr. How many realize that the cork borer, that ingenious, simple device, was invented by Mohr? Seventy years have passed since his death, but in that time little has appeared in the literature about this remarkable man.1 His importance as an analytical chemist and his contributions to pharmacy, physics and geology justify a study at this time. Karl Friedrich Mohr2 was born on November 4, 1806, in Koblenz, where his father, Karl Mohr, was Stadtrat and a well-established Apotheker and Mitglied des rheinschen Medizinalkollegiums und Provinzallandtages. Karl Friedrich was the youngest child and only son in the family of six children. All of his sisters, and probably his mother,3 died when he was a young boy. He attended the Koblenz
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