Ocupation: Chemist
Life: April 8, 1818 - May 5, 1892
Birthday: April 8
Death: May 5
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
source: "Hofmann und die Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft" by B. L. Lepsius, Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, (p. 51), 1918.