Otto Diels
Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for their work.
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- Born in
- Hamburg
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏆 Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal🏆 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Emil Fischer
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund📖 Kurt Alder
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1876
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Birth1954
Died
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