Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905 was awarded to Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"

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