Hugo Erdmann

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]

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

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.