biography
pronunciation:
[deelz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1954)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He studied at Berlin and became professor of chemistry at Kiel University (1916–48). With his pupil Kurt Alder he demonstrated in 1928 the ‘diene synthesis’ (Diels–Alder reaction), which is of far-reaching importance, especially in the plastics and petrochemicals industry. They shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1950. |
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