Adolf von Baeyer



This article is about the Nobel Prize winning German chemist, for the founder of the pharmaceutical company Bayer, please see: Friedrich Bayer
Adolf von Baeyer

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer in 1905
BornOctober 31 1835(1835-10-31)
Berlin, Germany
DiedAugust 20 1917 (aged 81)
Starnberg, Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
FieldChemist
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin

Gewerbe-Akademie, Berlin
University of Strassburg

University of Munich
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Academic advisor  Friedrich August Kekulé
Notable students  Emil Fischer
John Ulric Nef
Victor Villiger
Carl Theodore Liebermann
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1905)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (Justus von Liebig as Chemistry Professor at the University of Munich.

Baeyer's chief achievements include the synthesis and description of the plant carbon rings.[2]

In 1872 he experimented with Leo Baekeland's later discovery of Bakelite.

In 1881 the Royal Society of London awarded Baeyer the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds".

Baeyer's name is pronounced like the English word "buyer." His birth name was Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Baeyer, but throughout most of his life he was known simply as "Adolf Baeyer." On his fiftieth birthday he was raised to the hereditary nobility, changing his name to "Adolf von Baeyer."

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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Jacobus van 't Hoff (1901) • Emil Fischer (1902) • Svante Arrhenius (1903) • William Ramsay (1904) • Adolf von Baeyer (1905) • Henri Moissan (1906) • Eduard Buchner (1907) • Ernest Rutherford (1908) • Wilhelm Ostwald (1909) • Otto Wallach (1910) • Marie Curie (1911) • Victor Grignard / Paul Sabatier (1912) • Alfred Werner (1913) • Theodore Richards (1914) • Richard Willstätter (1915) • Fritz Haber (1918) • Walther Nernst (1920) • Frederick Soddy (1921) • Francis Aston (1922) • Fritz Pregl (1923) • Richard Zsigmondy (1925)

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NAME Baeyer, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Ritter von; Bayer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von
SHORT DESCRIPTION German Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin, Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1917
PLACE OF DEATH Starnberg, Germany
 
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