Alfred Wohl

Alfred Wohl ( born October 3, 1863 in Graudenz, West Prussia, † December 25, 1939 in Stockholm ) was a German chemist.

Life and work

At age 19, well began in 1882 at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg to study chemistry. This study he was able to successfully conclude 1886 in Berlin with his dissertation Methylaldehyd and its derivatives. His doctor father was August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

The following year, well got a job as an assistant at beet sugar laboratory in Berlin; he held until 1889 this post. Thereafter followed several years as a lecturer. In 1891 he returned to the laboratory in Berlin and habilitated there.

1904 took well to a full professorship at the Technical University of Gdansk in 1904 neugegrundete. As such, he was entrusted with the management of the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry. From 1913 to 1915 he was rector of the Technical University of Gdansk. The German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina took well in 1932 as a full member on. The following year, he was dismissed as politically unreliable by the Nazis from his office. Then he could work for some scientific projects, but his situation was with the years more and more difficult.

1938 emigrated well to Stockholm, where he died the following year.

According to Professors Alfred Wohl and Karl Ziegler, the Wohl-Ziegler reaction is named.

Writings (selection )

• Methylaldehyd and its derivatives. Univ. Diss Berlin 1886.
• Organic chemistry and the science of life. , 1910.