Adolf von baeyer biography of donald
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Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist (1835–1917)
For the founder of the pharmaceutical company Bayer, see Friedrich Bayer.
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German:[ˈaːdɔlffɔnˈbaɪɐ]ⓘ; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo[2] 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.[3]
Family and education
Baeyer was born in Berlin as the son of the noted geodesist and captain of the Royal Prussian Army Johann Jacob Baeyer and his wife Eugenie Baeyer née Hitzig (1807–1843).[4] Both his parents were Lutherans at the time of his birth and he was raised in the Lutheran religion.[5] His mother was the daughter of Julius Eduard Hitzig and a member of the originally JewishItzig family, and had conv