If you are a reporter, writer, or producer who wishes to schedule an interview, please use the contact form to send a request that includes. Media contacts are available to answer media inquiries about their research or other areas of expertise. Pdf august wilhelm hofmann reigning chemistinchief. Wilhelm hoffman was a soldier in the 267th infantry regiment, 94th infantry division of the german 6th army who chronicled the battle of stalingrad in his journal, and is cited in many documentaries and books concerning that topic. Introduction to modern chemistry, experimental and. The word aromatic is indeed first used with a chemical meaning compatible with the modern definition in hofmanns report on his own extension to an independent work c. His research on aniline helped lay the basis of the anilinedye industry, and his research on coal tar laid the groundwork for his student charles mansfields practical methods for extracting benzene and toluene and converting them into. A case for august wilhelm hofmann as the originator of the field of. The preceding researches show that the action of the. That same year he became the first director of the royal college of chemistry in london, which was. Wilhelm hofmann phd ruhruniversitat bochum, bochum rub. Hofmann coined the term aromatic to denote a class of organic compounds with high carbon content, which are now known to include a phenyl ring like benzene. Pdf one hundred and twentyfive years ago, on november 11th, 1867, the.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. August konrad hofmann 17761841, deutscher staatsmann. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. As quoted in sir frederick abel, the work of the imperial institute nature. A graduate of the university of giessen, hofmann was a student. He tutored frederick abel in liebigs laboratory at giessenin his first research, was on coaltar and the organic bases in naphtha, as a result he established the nature of aniline. Wilhelm hoffmann at in german this biographical article related to association football in germany, about a forward born in the 1940s, is a stub. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available.
Studio legge e filologia a gottinga, passando poi nel campo delle scienze. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. A graduate of the university of giessen, hofmann was a student of j. He tutored frederick abel in liebigs laboratory at giessenin his first research, was on coaltar and the organic bases in naphtha. Introduction to modern chemistry, experimental and theoretic. He first studied law and languages at the university of gie. His research on aniline helped lay the basis of the anilinedye industry, and his research on coal tar laid the groundwork for his student charles mansfields practical methods for extracting benzene and toluene and converting them into nitro compounds and amines.
Johannes wilhelm hofmann siedelte mit seiner familie nach nurnberg um, sein radebeuler vermogen einschlie. His journal provides a firsthand account of what the german 6th army was experiencing and how they were coping with the situation, without. In 1845 he was a privat docent at the university of bonn. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at gottingen. I hope that in due time the chemists will justify their proceedings by some lar. This page was last edited on 24 november 2014, at 04.
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