Baeyer, Johan Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf (1835-1917)
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Baeyer, Johann
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19th Century
Born: Berlin (Germany), 1835
Died: Starnberg near München (Germany), 1917
Baeyer studied under Robert Bunsen and August Kekulé, and in 1873 became successor of Justus Liebig in München. Baeyer did fundamental research on uric acid, indigo, phthaleine derivatives, terpenes, peroxides andacetylene etc. He is also known for his theory of tension (Spannungstheorie) of ring molecules. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905"in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"