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Hermann Staudinger

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Hermann Staudinger

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German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)

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Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who lived from 1881 to 1965 and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953. While the context provided doesn't specify his exact contributions, his Nobel Prize recognition indicates he made significant discoveries in chemistry that fundamentally advanced the field.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1953

    “for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Hermann
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Worms
Place of death
Freiburg im Breisgau
Educated at
ETH Zurich
Employer
ETH Zurich
Languages spoken
German
Doctoral advisor
Daniel Vorländer
Field of work
physical chemistry
Image
Hermann Staudinger.jpg
Work location
Freiburg im Breisgau
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member of
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Hermann Staudinger
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
date of birth
1881-03-23
date of death
1965-09-09
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name in native language
Hermann Staudinger
student
Leopold Ružička
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Bruvik
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Hermann Staudinger ( German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃtaʊ̯dɪŋɐ] ; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction. Staudinger, together with Leopold Ružička, also elucidated the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and II in the 1920s, enabling the development of pyrethroid insecticides in the 1960s and 1970s.

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