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Kurt Alder

Chemistry

Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who lived from 1902 to 1958. He shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Otto Diels for their discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction, a method for synthesizing cyclohexene compounds that proved valuable for manufacturing synthetic rubber and plastic.

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Birth Year
1902 1
Death Date
1958-06-20 1
Death Year
1958 1
Death Place
Cologne, Germany 1
Nationality
Germany 1
Birthplace
Chorzów, Poland 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
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1. Kurt Alder (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1958-06-20T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1958-06-20T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Germany
    Q183
  • P20 (place of death): Cologne, Germany
    Q365
  • P19 (place of birth): Chorzów, Poland
    Q104302
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Kurt Alder (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead sentence
    Kurt Alder (10 July 1902 - 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
  • Member Of: University of Cologne, Infobox: workplaces
    I G Farben Industrie, University of Cologne
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