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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 10 entries checked · 6 flagged · 9 issues confirmed · 6 corrected · 3 still open
Adolf von Baeyer — Baeyer's mother's name is incorrectly given as 'Eugenie Hitzig (née David)'; her maiden name was Eugenie Hitzig, not née David.
Albert Szent-Györgyi — Szent-Györgyi began studies at the University of Budapest (now Eötvös Loránd University) medical school, not Semmelweis University.
Joseph Priestley — Priestley was the oldest of five living children, not six
Josiah Willard Gibbs — The claim that Gibbs popularized the term 'statistical mechanics' in his 1902 book, but the term was originally coined by James Clerk Maxwell, is incorrect. The term 'statistical mechanics' was actually coined by Gibbs himself, not Maxwell; Maxwell used the te
Josiah Willard Gibbs — The claim that Gibbs was the uncle by marriage of Roger Sherman Baldwin is incorrect. Roger Sherman Baldwin was a lawyer and politician involved in the Amistad case, but he was not related to Gibbs by marriage; Gibbs's wife was Julia Van Name, and there is no
Justus von Liebig — The entry states that Liebig was appointed to the full chair in chemistry in December 1825 after the suicide of a rival professor and the death of another, but historically only one professor (Wilhelm Zimmermann) died by suicide, and there was no second death
Justus von Liebig — The entry says the university senate rejected the idea of a private institute for pharmacy and manufacturing, but in reality the senate did not reject it; the university simply lacked funds, and Liebig set it up privately without a formal rejection.
Jöns Jacob Berzelius — The entry misspells 'selenium' as 'seleni'
Jöns Jacob Berzelius — The entry misspells 'Elisabeth Poppius' as 'Elizabeth Poppius'
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