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Born June 16, 1897 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 26, 1987 (aged 90) • Heidelberg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study Wittig reaction • organic phosphorus compound
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Hell, Stefan
Stefan Hell
Romanian-born German chemist
Hermann Staudinger.
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
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Benjamin List
German chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
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Richard Willstätter
German chemist
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Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
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Hans Fischer
German biochemist
Wallach
Otto Wallach
German chemist
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Robert Huber
German biochemist
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Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Ertl, Gerhard
Gerhard Ertl
German chemist

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