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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.

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

Honors

• In 1912, Hofmann received the Emil Fischer Medal from the German Chemical Society for his research on synthetic rubber.

See also

• Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev

References

1. See entry of Fritz Hofmann in Rostock Matrikelportal
2. Lanxess documentation

• Organic chemists
• German chemists
• German inventors
• German scientists
• University of Rostock alumni
• Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
• Polymer scientists and engineers
• Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1866 births
• 1956 deaths