Carl Magnus von Hell

Carl Magnus von Hell (8 September 1849 – 11 December 1926) was a German chemist who discovered, together with Jacob Volhard and Nikolay Zelinsky, the α-halogenation of carboxylic acids.

He trained under Hermann von Fehling and spent most of his career at the Stuttgart Polytechnic, where he was professor of organic chemistry. He published the reaction that bears his name in 1881.