Conrad Willgerodt | |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1841 |
Birth Place: | Harlingerode, Duchy of Brunswick, today Bad Harzburg, Germany |
Nationality: | German |
Death Place: | Germany |
Doctoral Advisor: | Adolf Karl Ludwig Claus |
Known For: | Willgerodt reaction |
Conrad Heinrich Christoph Willgerodt (2 November 1841 – 19 December 1930) was a German chemist who first described the Willgerodt reaction.[1] Alongside the Willgerodt reaction, he had also discovered Iodosobenzene and chlorobutanol and several nitrophenol ethers.
As for his career, Conrad Willgerodt was a professor at the University of Freiburg.