Adolf von Baeyer

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.

Awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Elliott Cresson Medal, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Liebig Medal, Davy Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Education: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Heidelberg University, Ghent University

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