Carl Dietrich Harries

Carl Dietrich Harries (born Aug. 5, 1866, Luckenwalde, Ger.—died Nov. 3, 1923, Berlin) was a German chemist and industrialist who developed the ozonolysis process (Harries reaction) for determining the structure of natural rubber (polyisoprene) and who contributed to the early development of synthetic rubber. Harries studied chemistry at the University of Jena (1886–88), spent a year at Adolf von Baeyer’s chemical research laboratory at Munich, and received a doctorate (1890) from the University of Berlin....