Hermann Staudinger
1881 – 1965 · aged 84
German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
- Born
- 23 Mar 1881 · Worms
- Died
- 8 Sept 1965 · Freiburg im Breisgau
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- 23 Mar 1881BornBorn in Worms
- 1930AwardEmil Fischer Medal
- 1930AwardFresenius Prize
- 1953AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1953AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1954AwardHonorary citizen of Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1959AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1962AwardRudolf-Diesel-Medaille
- 8 Sept 1965DiedDied in Freiburg im Breisgau
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Major world events during their lifetime (1881 – 1965).
- 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
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
Biography
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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