Ludwig Mond died at his residence in London on December 11th, 1909, at the age of seventy.
The son of a merchant at Cassel, Germany, he was educated at the Polytechnic School in that town, and afterwards at Marburg and at Heidelburg University, where he was a pupil of Bünsen.
After completing his education he was employed at various chemical works in Germany, and in 1862 he came to England, where he settled permanently in 1867. In partnership with Mr. Brunner (afterwards Sir John Brunner), Mr. Mond erected works at Northwich for the manufacture of soda by the Solvay process. The growth of these works was remarkable, and Messrs Brunner, Mond & Co. became the largest alkali manufacturers in the world. Mr. Mond directed his attention to the extraction of nickel from ores, and in 1892 a large experimental plant was erected at Smethwick, where the process was developed and afterwards successfully operated by the Mond Nickel Co. at Swansea and at their extensive works in Ontario.
Mr. Mond devoted large sums of money to the advancement of science in many directions, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Member of several scientific and technical institutions.
He was elected an Honorary Member of the Institution in 1902.
Vol. 19, Trans IMM 1909-10, p.604
