Famous People with Name Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Franz Volhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz Volhard: was a German internist who was born in Munich. He studied medicine in Bonn, Strasbourg, and Halle. His instructors included Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829-1910), Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925), Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838-1921), and Joseph von Mering (1849-1908), and from 1897 to 1905 he worked at the university medical clinic at Giessen under Franz Riegel (1843-1904). In 1905 he became head of the medical department at the city hospital in Dortmund, and in 1908 director of the Krankenanstalt in Mannheim. Afterwards he was a professor at Halle an der Saale (from-1918) and Frankfurt am Main (from-1927).

Jacob Volhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jacob Volhard: was the German chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation.