biography
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Baeyer, Johann (Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf) von
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pronunciation:
[bayer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1835–1917)
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| biography:
| Organic chemist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Heidelberg, and became professor of chemistry at Strasbourg (1872) and Munich (1875–1915). His researches covered many aspects of chemistry, notably the synthesis of the dye indigo and the elucidation of its structure, the mechanism of photosynthesis, the condensation of phenols and aldehydes, the polyacetylenes, the stability of polymethylene rings, the terpenes, and the basicity of organic oxygen compounds. He was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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