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Kurt Alder

1902 - 1958

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Kurt Alder (German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt ˈaldɐ] ; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Alder is the 59th most popular chemist (down from 45th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Poland (up from 80th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Chemist.

Kurt Alder is most famous for his discovery of the chemical reaction that is used to synthesize polymers.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kurt Alder ranks 59 out of 602Before him are Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, Rodney Robert Porter, Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, and Frederick Soddy. After him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, and Leopold Ružička.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Kurt Alder ranks 13Before him are John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Halldór Laxness, Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Eugene Wigner. After him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Fernand Braudel, Alfred Kastler, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, and Arne Tiselius. Among people deceased in 1958, Kurt Alder ranks 7Before him are Pope Pius XII, Rosalind Franklin, Wolfgang Pauli, Imre Nagy, Roger Martin du Gard, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After him are Tyrone Power, Faisal II of Iraq, Clinton Davisson, Ernest Lawrence, John B. Watson, and Abul Kalam Azad.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurt Alder ranks 48 out of 1,694Before him are Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Klaus Kinski (1926), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Casimir III the Great (1310). After him are Faustina Kowalska (1905), Paul Ehrlich (1854), Kurt Lewin (1890), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Emanuel Lasker (1868), and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Kurt Alder ranks 4Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), and Walther Nernst (1864). After him are Friedrich Bergius (1884), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867).