Johann Heinrich Pott, Prussian physician and chemist (born 1692)

Johann Heinrich Pott was a Prussian physician, chemist, and a glass and porcelain technologist. He is considered a pioneer of pyrochemistry. He examined the elements bismuth and manganese apart from attempting improvements to glass and porcelain production.

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