Background
Ullmann was born in Fürth and started studying chemistry in Nuremberg, but received his Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Geneva for work with Carl Gräbe in 1895.
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Fritz Ullmann
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University of Geneva.
Career
After some time in Geneva he went to Berlin in 1905. Ullmann taught technical chemistry during 1905-1913 and 1922-1925 at the Technischen Hochschule Berlin now Technische Universität Berlin, first as part of the ordinary teaching staff, later on as a professor In 1900 he introduced dimethyl sulfate as an alkylating agent.
Between 1914 and 1922, when he was back in Geneva, he published the first edition of the "Enzyklopädie der Technischen Chemie" in 12 volumes () in English the Ullmann"s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, a publication that exists to this day.
They named after themselves the following reactions: the Ullmann reaction, the Ullmann condensation, the Graebe-Ullmann synthesis, the Goldberg reaction and the illustrious Jordan-Ullmann-Goldberg synthesis.
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Germany Switzerland