Carl Graebe | |
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 Carl Graebe in the 1890s | |
| Born | 24 February 1841 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Died | 19 January 1927 (aged 85) |
| Education | Karlsruhe Polytechnic University of Heidelberg |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Hoechst AG University of Leipzig University of Königsberg University of Geneva |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
| Other academic advisors | Adolf von Baeyer |
| Doctoral students | Vera Bogdanovskaia |
Carl Graebe (German: [ˈɡʁɛːbə]; 24 February 1841 – 19 January 1927) was a German industrial and academic chemist from Frankfurt am Main who held professorships in his field at Leipzig, Königsberg, and Geneva. He is known for the first synthesis of the economically important dye, alizarin, with Liebermann, and for contributing to the fundamental nomenclature of organic chemistry.