Franz Sondheimer: Quick Facts

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Friedrich Wöhler

German chemist

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist

Sir Derek H.R. Barton

British chemist

Hermann Kolbe

German chemist

Peter Armbruster

German physicist

Kurt Alder

German chemist

Percy Julian

American chemist

Sir Norman Haworth

British chemist

Adolf von Baeyer

German chemist

Charles J. Pedersen

American chemist

Bruce Merrifield

American biochemist and educator

Otto Paul Hermann Diels

German chemist

Donald J. Cram

American chemist

Paul Sabatier

French chemist

Sir Robert Robinson

British chemist

Jean-Marie Lehn

French chemist

Andreas Libavius

German chemist and physician

Carl Graebe

German chemist

Aleksandr Butlerov

Russian chemist

Roger Adams

American chemist