Alexander Mitscherlich (chemist)
Alexander Mitscherlich was a German chemist and son of Eilhard Mitscherlich.
He studied at University of Göttingen, where he also became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera.
His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882.
In 1909 Mitscherlich wrote on crop yields in agronomy. His results have been characterized as the "sum of two exponential processes."
A historian of plant science wrote in 1942:
