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Born December 6, 1835 • Hamburg • Germany
Died November 19, 1910 (aged 74) • Strasbourg • Germany
Subjects Of Study aromatic compound • chemical reaction • coal tar • organic compound • quinone • sodium • unsaturated acid
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist
Wilhelm Körner
German chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemist
Adolf Windaus
German chemist

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