Rudolf Leuckart (chemist)

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Rudolf Leuckart
Born June 23, 1854(1854-06-23)
Gießen, Germany
Died July 24, 1889 (aged 35)
Leipzig, Germany
Nationality German
Institutions University of Göttingen
Alma mater University of Heidelberg,
University of Leipzig
Known for Leuckart reaction

Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart (June 23, 1854 - July 24, 1889) was a German chemist who discovered the Leuckart reaction in 1885.

He was the son of Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart (1822 -1898) a renown German zoologist. He received his PhD at the University of Leipzig in 1879 and his habilitation at University of Göttingen in 1883, where he also became professor.


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