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Albert Ladenburg

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Albert Ladenburg · Science & Medicine

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Organic chemist known for structural studies of pyridine and benzene

When

1842, Mannheim, Germany — 1911, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)

Where

Germany

Biography

Albert Ladenburg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Organic chemist known for structural studies of pyridine and benzene

How & why

Albert Ladenburg was an organic chemist who carried out important structural studies of pyridine and benzene, proposed an early prism model for benzene, and achieved the first synthesis of a natural alkaloid (coniine). He was a leading figure in German organic chemistry. He came from a prominent Mannheim Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

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Organic chemist known for structural studies of pyridine and benzene

1842

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry