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Hans L. Meyer

Who

Hans L. Meyer · Science & Medicine

What

Chemist known for organic chemistry

When

1871, Vienna, Austria — 1942, Theresienstadt (Terezín)

Where

Austria · Bohemia (Prague)

Biography

Hans L. Meyer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Chemist known for organic chemistry

How & why

Hans Leopold Meyer was an Austrian organic chemist and professor at the German University in Prague, renowned for developing precise qualitative and quantitative methods to identify functional groups in organic compounds, set out in his influential textbook on the analysis of organic radicals. Dismissed in 1939 because of his Jewish ancestry, he was deported and died in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

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Chemist known for organic chemistry

1850

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry