Bismarck Brown Y
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “C.I. No. 331 Bismarck Brown Y 10 gms / Certified for use in: Histology, Bacteriology (Staining) / Pharmaceutical Laboratories / NATIONAL ANILINE DIVISION / ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORPORATION. . .” In 1863, Carl Alexander von Martius (1838-1920), a chemist and entrepreneur in Berlin, invented an azo dye which he named Bismarck brown Y, after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. George de Laire (1836-1908), a chemist with the Imperial Mint in Paris, obtained a British patent for “Improvements in the Manufacture of Brown Coloring Matters” that same year. This sample was collected by Richard E. Heller (1908-1998), a surgeon affiliated with the Northwestern University Medical School.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.014
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.6 cm x 3.3 cm; 2 5/8 in x 1 5/16 in