Why did some atoms tend to combine with others, while others tend to shift; resist merger? Richard Abegg is a scientist who has solved an important problem in the material world.
(1869-1910) German physical chemist. He introduced the concept of "valency", which explains the rules of association between atoms. Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was born on January 9, 1869 in Danzig (Gdansk). After studying chemistry at the universities of Tübingen, Kiel, Berlin, Leipzig, and Stockholm, he worked as Nernst's assistant at the University of Breslau (University of Wroclaw). In 1897, he was appointed professor of chemistry at the same university. He died in a balloon accident near Köslin (Koszalin) in Pomerania on April 3, 1910.
Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. He was a gas balloon enthusiast, which caused his death at the age of 41 when he crashed in his balloon in Silesia.
Abegg, A.W. Apart from his early work on chrysanthemums, which he did with von Hofmann, he focused all his attention on physical chemistry. Although he had important work on complex ions, freezing points, and oxidation potential, his main contribution to inorganic chemistry was his discovery of the rule named after him. According to this rule, known as the "Abegg Rule" or the "valence concept," the sum of the positive and negative coupling values of an element always equals 8.
Observing that noble gas atoms always have eight electrons in their outer orbits and that these gases have a stable structure, for this reason, Abegg explained that starting from this point, all atoms try to complete the number of electrons in their outer orbits to eight by gaining or losing electrons during the chemical union. His work, which he intended to compile his research on inorganic chemistry, was left unfinished upon his death.