Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821 to 1895), better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who did ground-breaking work in chemistry, in physics (thermodynamics, optics and electrodynamics) and on crystal forms. Born in Karlsbad in the Austrian Empire, now Karlovy Vary, he was sent to high school by the priest Adalbert Czech and later studied philosophy and mathematics at Charles University in Prague, where the philosophy professor Franz Serafin Exner became his second mentor. His 1861 booklet Chemische Studien proposed two-dimensional representations for over 300 molecules, including benzene, which he drew with a large circle, and some argue he anticipated Kekule's cyclic structure by four years. In 1865 he was the first to estimate the size of air molecules, arriving at a value only about twice the true size, by a method that related the size of any gas molecule to measurable phenomena. He became professor of physical chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1868.
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