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Place of birth
Stuttgart
Place of death
Stuttgart
Age
65 years
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Biography
Julius Tafel (June 2, 1862 – September 2, 1918) was a German chemist.
Work
He worked first with Hermann Emil Fischer on the field of organic chemistry, but changed to electrochemistry after his work with Wilhelm Ostwald. He is known for the discovery of an electrosynthetic rearrangement reaction of various alkylated ethyl acetoacetates to form hydrocarbons, now called the Tafel rearrangement, and the Tafel equation, which relates the rate of an electrochemical reaction to the overpotential.
Life
Tafel suffered from insomnia and eventually had a complete nervous breakdown. He committed suicide in Munich in 1918.
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