List of Famous people with last name Carius

Otto Carius

First Name Otto

Last Name Carius

Born on May 27, 1922

Died on January 24, 2015 (aged 92)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate

Otto Carius was a German tank commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Georg Ludwig Carius

First Name Georg

Last Name Carius

Born on August 24, 1829

Died on April 24, 1875 (aged 45)

Born in Germany, Lower Saxony, Bad Lauterberg im Harz

Georg Ludwig Carius was a German chemist born in Barbis, in the Kingdom of Hanover. He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years. He was Director of the Marburger Chemical Institute of Philipps University of Marburg from 1865. He is noted for the studies of oxidation for which he developed a method involving high temperature digestion in a sealed tube. Heavy wall sealed tubes, as used for digestion or thermolysis are referred to as "Carius tubes". He also wrote a textbook on polybasic acids.

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