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Born July 10, 1902 • Prussia
Died June 20, 1958 (aged 55) • Cologne • West Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1950)
Subjects Of Study Diels-Alder reaction • chemical synthesis • cyclic compound

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Kurt Alder.
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
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Leopold Ružička
Swiss chemist
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Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
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Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
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

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