Hermann Staudinger
1881-1965
German chemist who won the 1953 Nobel Prize as the major founder of macromolecular chemistry during the 1920s. Staudinger proved that macromolecules are not aggregates of ...
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Hermann Staudinger's interest in organic chemistry was wide-ranging and he made many important contributions in that field. He is principally known, however, for his concept of the "macromolecule," or...
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Staudinger was born March 23, 1881, in Worms, Germany. Staudinger graduated from the Gymnasium at Worms in 1899 (a German gymnasium is roughly the equivalent of an American prep school) and began hi...
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Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger