Ludwig Wolff (chemist)
Ludwig Wolff (born September 27, 1857 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , † February 24, 1919 in Jena ) was a German chemist .
life and work
Ludwig Wolff was born in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1857 in what was then the Rhine Province . Wolff studied chemistry at the universities of Würzburg and Munich. He was at the University of Strasbourg PhD , with Rudolph Fittig his doctoral supervisor was. In 1891 he accepted an appointment at the University of Jena and became associate professor for analytical chemistry . He died at the age of 61.
The Wolff rearrangement he discovered and the Wolff-Kishner reaction are named after him .
Web links
- Peter Morris: Chemist's Biographies
Individual evidence
- ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organic Chemistry , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 517, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1919 |
| Place of death | Jena |