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Fritz Hofmann (chemist)

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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 synthesized synthetic rubber.

On September 12, 1909, he filed a patent on the manufacture of the first synthetic rubber.

Honors

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

See also

References

  1. Lanxess documentation
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