Hermann Staudinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1881

Place of Birth: Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1965

Profession: engineer, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Hermann Staudinger (23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers.
For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction.
Staudinger, together with Leopold Ružicka, also elucidated the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and II in the 1920s, enabling the development of pyrethroid insecticides in the 1960s and 1970s.