Yegor Wagner

Yegor Wagner
Born
Yegor Yegorovich Wagner

(1849-12-09)9 December 1849
Kazan, Russian Empire
Died27 November 1903(1903-11-27) (aged 53)
Warsaw, Russian Empire
Alma mater University of Kazan
Known forWagner reaction
Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
Spouses
Vera Alexandrovna Barkhatova
(m. 1874)
  • Alexandra Afanasyevna Afanasyeva
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Warsaw
Doctoral advisors A.M. Zaitsev
A.M. Butlerov
Menshutkin N. A.

Yegor Yegorovich Wagner (sometimes Georg Wagner or Egor Vagner; Russian: Егор Егорович Вагнер; 9 December 1849 – 27 November 1903) was a Russian organic chemist, famous for the discovery of the "Wagner reaction", named after him. Former representative of the Kazan School of Chemistry.