1. Albert Ladenburg was educated at a Realgymnasium at Mannheim and then, after the age of 15, at the technical school of Karlsruhe, where he studied mathematics and modern languages.
10 Facts About Albert Ladenburg
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Albert Ladenburg then proceeded to the University of Heidelberg where he studied chemistry and physics with Robert Bunsen.
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In 1873, Albert Ladenburg went to Kiel as professor of chemistry and director of the laboratory, remaining there until 1889 when he went to the University of Breslau in the same capacity.
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Albert Ladenburg was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1886 and received the Hanbury Medal for original research in chemistry in 1889.
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In 1900 Albert Ladenburg founded the Chemische Gesellschaft Breslau, which he managed until 1910.
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Albert Ladenburg was awarded the prestigious Davy Medal in 1905 "for his researches in organic chemistry, especially in connection with the synthesis of natural alkaloids".
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Albert Ladenburg addressed the relation of religion and science in a book he published in 1904, where he dealt with the topics of "Science and spiritual life" and Christianity.
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Albert Ladenburg's theory that benzene was a prismatic molecule turned out to be wrong.
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Albert Ladenburg's proposed structure was eventually realised in 1973 in the molecule prismane.
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Albert Ladenburg visited England, and then went on to work for 18 months in Paris with Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and Charles Friedel on organosilicon compounds and tin compounds.