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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950

"for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis"
Otto Paul Hermann Diels Kurt Alder
Otto Paul Hermann Diels Kurt Alder
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Federal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Germany
Kiel University
Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany		 Cologne University
Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1876
d. 1954		 b. 1902
d. 1958
 
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