Robert, Julius#
Robert, Julius, b. Himberg (Lower Austria), June 4, 1826, d. Zidlochovice, Czech Republic (then Grossseelowitz), Feb. 9, 1888, chemist, industrialist. Son of the sugar manufacturer Florentin R. (1795-1870). 1865 developed a new diffusion method for the extraction of syrup from sugar beet and introduced the steam plough at his model farm in Moravia in 1871.
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