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	==Honors==		==Honors==

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Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert) (2 November 1866 in Kölleda - 22 October 1956 in Hanover) was a German organic chemist who first synthesized synthetic rubber.

On September 12, 1909, he filed a patent for the manufacture of the world's first synthetic rubber.

In 1912, Hofmann received the gold medal Emil Fischer of the German Chemical Society for his research on synthetic rubber.