Otto Diels

Otto Paul Hermann Diels (January 23 1876 - March 7 1954) was a German chemist. He was the son of a professor of Philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in Chemistry.

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January 23 - 1876 - March 7 - 1954 - German - Philology - University of Berlin - Chemistry

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Diels taught at the University of Berlin and at the University of Kiel. Two of his sons were killed in World War II.

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University of Kiel - World War II

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In 1950 he was awarded (with Kurt Alder, his student) the Nobel Prize

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in Chemistry "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis," known also as the Diels-Alder Reaction.

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