Walter Abraham Jacobs

Walter Abraham Jacobs ( born December 24, 1883 in New York City; † 12 July 1967 Los Angeles ) was an American chemist.

Jacobs studied at the University of Berlin and was an academic student of Hermann Emil Fischer. He is the co-discoverer of the Gould - Jacobs reaction and proposed the first to propose the correct structural formula of lysergic acid.

Credentials

  • Robert Elderfield: Walter A. Jacobs. In: Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science. 51, 1980.
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