Carl Wehmer

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wehmer (20 September 1858 Freiburg, Kingdom of Hanover - 11 January 1935 Hannover, Germany), was a German chemist and mycologist. He worked on the production of citric acid by fermentation. [1]

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