Hugo Erdmann

Hugo Erdmann
Hugo Erdmann
Born	(1862-05-08)8 May 1862 Preußisch Holland, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	25 June 1910(1910-06-25) (aged 48) Müritzsee, German Empire
Nationality	German
Known for	Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Volhard

Hugo Wilhelm Traugott Erdmann (8 May 1862 – 25 June 1910) was the German chemist who discovered, together with his doctoral advisor Jacob Volhard, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization. In 1898 he was the first who coined the term noble gas (the original noun is Edelgas in German).[1]

Erdmann invented the name Thiozone in 1908, hypothesizing that S₃ made up a large proportion of liquid sulfur.[2]

In collaboration with Rudolph Fittig, Erdmann found that dehydration of γ-phenyl structural analog of isocrotonic acid produced α-naphthol, an observation that provided evidence in understanding the nature of naphthalene.[3]

Bibliography

Books written by Erdmann:

1. Hugo Erdmann (2009-01-31). Introduction to Chemical Preparations. BiblioLife. ISBN 978-0-559-91368-6.

See also

• German inventors and discoverers

References

• "Hugo Erdmann". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17.
• Lockemann, Georg (1959), "Hugo Erdmann", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 572–572

Notes

1. Renouf, Edward (1901-02-15). "Noble gases". Science. 13 (320): 268–270. Bibcode:1901Sci....13..268R. doi:10.1126/science.13.320.268.
2. Hugo Erdmann (1908). "Ueber Thiozonide, ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Schwefels und seiner ringförmigen Verbindungen". Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. 362 (2): 133–173. doi:10.1002/jlac.19083620202.
3. Fittig, Rudolph; Erdmann, Hugo (1883). "Synthese des α-Naphtols" [Synthesis of α-Naphtol]. Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. (in German). 16 (1): 43–44. doi:10.1002/cber.18830160115.