Background
Momme Andresen was born in 1857 in Risum, Schleswig, Germany.
Momme Andresen was born in 1857 in Risum, Schleswig, Germany.
He attended Technische Hochschule in Dresden, then studied physical science at the Universities of Jena and Genf until 1887.
After he graduated Andresen became a chemist at the Berlin firm of Aktiengesellschaft für Ani-linfabrikation (AGFA), eventually rising to a directorial post. While there he made numerous discoveries in photochemistry, including the use of para-phenylene-diamine as a photographic developer (1888), Eikonogen (1889), a cartridge developer (1890) and the developer Rodinal (1891). The success of the latter encouraged AGFA, which heretofore had shown only a minor interest in photography, to build a small factory at Berlin-Treptow to manufacture photographic dry plates (1893). Andresen also discovered, concurrently with but independently of Lainer of Vienna, an acid fixing solution made from hypo solution and an acid sulphite (1889).