biography
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Hofmann, August Wilhelm von
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| lived:
| (1818–92)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Giessen, WC Germany. He became first director of the Royal College of Chemistry in London (1845), and was chemist to the Royal Mint (1856–65). He went to Berlin as professor of chemistry in 1865, founded the German Chemical Society (1868), and was ennobled in 1888. He obtained aniline from coal products, discovered many other organic compounds, including formaldehyde (1867), and devoted much labour to the theory of chemical types. His work was of importance to the aniline-dye industry. |
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