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Matthias Eduard Schweizer (8 August 1818 – 23 October 1860) was a Swiss chemist. He is known for his 1857 invention of Schweizer's reagent, in which cellulose can be dissolved for production of artificial silk. He was one of the pioneers of the synthetic textile industry. ==Life== Matthias Eduard Schweizer was born on 8 August 1818 in Wila, Zurich canton. He was awarded his doctorate in at the University of Zurich, then worked as an assistant at the Zurich Polytechnic. He was a student and assistant of Carl Jacob Löwig, and was mainly involved in analysis of different minerals. He lectured at the university, and was an associate professor at the university from 1852. From 1855 he taught chemistry at the Higher Industrial School (''Oberen Industrieschule'') in Zurich. Schweizer published a paper in 1857 (''Das Kupferoxid-Ammoniak, ein Auflösungsmittel für die Pflanzenfaser'') in which he reported that cotton, linen cellulose and silk could be dissolved in a cuprammonium solution. He found that after extrusion the cellulose could be regenerated in a coagulating bath. Schweizer did not apply for a patent on his invention. He died on 23 October 1860 in Zurich at the age of 42. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthias Eduard Schweizer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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