Conrad Weygand

{{Short description|German chemist (1890–1945)}}

Conrad Weygand (8 November 1890 – 18 April 1945) was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Leipzig.

In 1938 he put forward a method for the classification of chemical reactions based on bond breakage and formation during the reaction.[http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/chemnet/NOMEN.HTM Nomenclature, symbols, and structural diagrams] The preparative part of his book, Organisch-Chemische Experimentierkunst, was translated into English and published as Organic Preparations by Interscience Publishers, Inc. in 1946.{{cite journal | doi=10.1039/TF9474300293 | title=Reviews of books | journal=Transactions of the Faraday Society | date=1947 | volume=43 | page=293 }}

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His book about German chemistry introduces similar thoughts like there were presented by Philipp Lenard in his Deutsche Physik movement.{{cite book

| title = Deutsche Chemie als Lehre vom Stoff

| author =Weygand, Conrad

| publisher = Niemeyer Halle (Saale)

| year = 1942

| pages = 72}}

Enlisting as a commander of a Volkssturm unit, Conrad Weygand was killed in action on 18 April 1945 in Leipzig against US ground forces during the final battle for the city.