Alfred Bertheim

Alfred Bertheim (17 April 1879 – 17 August 1914) was a German <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a>, best known for his research on <a href="/facts/Arsenic/k1c4f44D">arsenic</a> compounds with <a href="/facts/Paul_Ehrlich/6XM57Clc">Paul Ehrlich</a>.
Bertheim was born in 1879 in <a href="/facts/Berlin/pMTIRNXK">Berlin</a> and studied chemistry in Strasbourg and Berlin, where he gained his doctorate in 1901, with a thesis "Ueber die fluorescierende Verbindung aus Chlor-alpha-naphtochinonacetessigeste". He served as an assistant to Privy Councilor Liebermann and Professor Rosenheim in Berlin.
In 1904 and 1905, he worked as a manufacturing chemist in <a href="/facts/Bitterfeld/6QmkCkTv">Bitterfeld</a> before moving to the Georg-Speyer-Haus in 1906. There, together with <a href="/facts/Paul_Ehrlich/6XM57Clc">Paul Ehrlich</a>, he elucidated the chemical constitution of <a href="/facts/Atoxyl/Dbq2RDYL">atoxyl</a> and synthesized innumerable arsenobenzene compounds. He was also responsible for the synthesis of <a href="/facts/Salvarsan/KehAqjeq">Salvarsan</a> and published "Ein Handbuch der organischen Arsenverbindungen" (A handbook of organic arsenic compounds).
Bertheim enlisted as a war volunteer and died in an accident in Berlin on 17 August 1914.

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Alfred Bertheim