Nationality German Role General Name Ludwig Wolff | Doctoral advisor Rudolph Fittig | |
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Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Battles and wars Invasion of Poland, Battle of the Netherlands, Battle of France, Battle of Dunkirk, Siege of Sevastopol | ||
Ludwig Wolff (27 September 1857 – 24 February 1919), born in Neustadt in Palatinate, was a German chemist.
He studied chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his Ph.D. from Rudolph Fittig in 1882. He became Professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Jena in 1891 and held this position till his death in 1919. In 1911 he published a new reaction now known as the Wolff-Kishner reduction. His name is also associated with the chemical reaction known as the Wolff rearrangement (1912).
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