Carl Liebermann
Carl Liebermann · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist who helped synthesize the dye alizarin
1842, Berlin, Prussia (now Germany) — 1914, Berlin, Germany
Germany
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Liebermann was a German Jewish organic chemist who, together with Carl Graebe, determined the structure of and synthesized the natural dye alizarin in 1868–69, enabling its industrial manufacture from anthracene. This launched the modern synthetic-dye industry. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin.
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Organic chemist who helped synthesize the dye alizarin
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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