Adolf von Baeyer
1835 – 1917 · aged 82
German chemist (1835-1917)
- Born
- 31 Oct 1835 · Berlin
- Died
- 20 Aug 1917 · Starnberg
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- 31 Oct 1835BornBorn in Berlin
- 1881AwardDavy Medal
- 1885AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1891AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1903AwardLiebig Medal
- 1905AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1905AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1912AwardElliott Cresson Medal
- 20 Aug 1917DiedDied in Starnberg
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Major world events during their lifetime (1835 – 1917).
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
Biography
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: [ˈaːdɔlf fɔn ˈbaɪɐ] ; 31 October 1835, Berlin – 20 August 1917, Starnberg) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature). He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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