Heinrich Debus

[1] In 1838, he attended a trade school in Kassel, where he was taught by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.

In 1848, he earned his doctorate by investigating a red madder dye.

At the suggestion of Frederick Augustus Genth, Debus was named Bunsen's successor at Marburg.

He then taught at Guy's Hospital, London from 1870 until appointed foundation Professor of Chemistry in 1873 at the new Royal Naval College, Greenwich, where he remained until his retirement and return to Germany.

[2] The Debus synthesis[3] was later often commented by the Polish chemist Bronisław Leonard Radziszewski.