Ludwig Wolff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig Wolff

German chemist

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1857

Place of Birth: Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1919

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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).