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Fritz Hofmann (chemist)
German organic chemist (1866–1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] On September 12, 1909, he filed a patent for the manufacture of the world's first synthetic rubber.[2]
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- In 1912, Hofmann received the Emil Fischer Medal from the German Chemical Society for his research on synthetic rubber.
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