Carl Mannich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Mannich

German chemist

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1877

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1947

Profession: pharmacist, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Carl Ulrich Franz Mannich (March 8, 1877 in Breslau – March 5, 1947 in Karlsruhe) was a German chemist.
From 1927 to 1943 he was professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Berlin.
His areas of expertise were keto bases, alcohol bases, derivatives of piperidine, papaverine, lactones and also Digitalis-glycosides. The Mannich reaction was named after his discovery of the mechanism in 1912.