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August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886
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Born April 8, 1818 • Giessen • Germany
Died May 2, 1892 (aged 74) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1875)
Subjects Of Study aniline • aniline dye • benzene • coal tar • formaldehyde • isocyanide • molecular weight • toluene

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Rudolf Fittig
German chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Wurtz
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Viktor Meyer
Viktor Meyer
German chemist
Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
German chemist
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Russian chemist

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