Spitteler

[ German shpit-l-uhr ]

noun

1. Carl [kah, r, l], Felix Tandem, 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1919.

Example Sentences

At the same time, Bavarian chemist Adolf Spitteler was experimenting with using formaldehyde to turn milk into a solid material, which could be cut or carved into all sorts of shapes.

From Scientific American

The real credit for the discovery, however, should go to Spitteler’s cat.

From Scientific American

In the morning, Spitteler discovered that the formaldehyde had curdled the milk into a solid, horn-like material, which set him off on a train of research and development.

From Scientific American

Once their method was perfected, Krische and Spitteler set up the first company to make casein plastic on an industrial scale – Vereinigte Gummiware Fabriken – and filed a patent for their new milk-based material in 1899.

From Scientific American

Poet Carl Spitteler claimed that if the Swiss had created the Alps, they would not have been so high.

From Time Magazine Archive