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Otto Wallach: Founder of Terpene Chemistry and Nobel Laureate 1910
Author(s) -
Christmann Mathias
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201003155
Subject(s) - nobel laureate , history of chemistry , chemistry , terpene , art history , polymer science , philosophy , organic chemistry , art , epistemology , history of science , literature , poetry
A blast from the past : Through his contributions on derivatization and structural elucidation Otto Wallach revolutionized terpene chemistry. His research in this area, begun in 1884, earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a hundred years ago.