Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart (23 June 1854 â 24 July 1889) was a German chemist who discovered the Leuckart reaction and Leuckart thiophenol reaction.
He was the son of Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart (1822âÂÂ1898) a renowned German zoologist. He received his PhD at the University of Leipzig in 1879 and his habilitation at University of Göttingen in 1883, where he also became professor.