Organic chemistry

4 lives in this collection worked in organic chemistry, from 1800 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.

Often together with: analytical chemistry. All fields

  • Friedrich Wöhler1800–1882

    Chemist who synthesized urea from ammonium cyanate, first isolated aluminium, beryllium and yttrium, and led the Göttingen chemical laboratory for 46 years.

    organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry

  • Justus von Liebig1803–1873

    Chemist who made organic analysis routine, created the research-teaching laboratory at Giessen, and founded agricultural chemistry.

    organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, agricultural chemistry

  • Stanislao Cannizzaro1826–1910

    Italian chemist whose 1858 Sunto revived Avogadro's hypothesis to fix atomic weights, decisively at the 1860 Karlsruhe Congress, and discoverer of the Cannizzaro reaction.

    chemistry, atomic theory, organic chemistry

  • August Kekulé1829–1896

    Chemist who established the tetravalence of carbon, carbon chains and the six-membered benzene ring, founding structural organic chemistry.

    organic chemistry, structural theory, aromatic chemistry