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PROF. ALFRED WOHL died in Stockholm on December 25, 1939, at the age of seventy-six years. He was born on October 3, 1863, at Graudenz and received his early training at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1886 at the University of Berlin, working under the supervision of Prof. A. W. von Hoffman, and spent the next two years in the Laboratorium des Vereins fur RübenzuckerIndustrie, Berlin. In 1891 he became Privat-dozent in Emil Fischer's laboratory in the University of Berlin, and in 1904 was appointed director of the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry and Technology at the Technische Hochschüle, Danzig, a post which he held until he retired on reaching his seventieth birthday in 1933.
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Prof. Alfred Wohl. Nature 145, 290 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145290a0
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