“Dr. Ludwig Mond FRS” by Edouard Lanteri

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Dr. Ludwig Mond FRS

Edouard Lanteri

Signed and dated: “Ed. Lanteri 1909”

bronze

4 inches in diameter

Private Collection

“ANNO MDCCCCVIII” appears on the right rim of the medallion opposite Mond's name

Photograph by the owner

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The owner of the medallion sends along the following information about Mond, a chemist who lived from 1839 to 1909, from www.infoplease.com:

He was born in Germany and became a naturalized British subject. Mond experimented with alkalies and also developed a producer gas known by his name. He was cofounder and director of Brunner-Mond (1872), which became the world's largest producer of alkalies. Another outstanding discovery of his was nickel carbonyl, a gas formed from carbon monoxide and metallic nickel. Mond developed a valuable method known as the Mond process. for extracting nickel from its ores” by use of this carbonyl. In the process, carbon monoxide passing over the crushed and smelted ore containing nickel produces the volatile nickel carbonyl; this is decomposed to yield metallic nickel.

Bibliography

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

“Ludwig Mond.” www.infoplease.com. Web. 20 April 2011.

Last modified 24 April 2011