Adolf von Baeyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf von Baeyer

German Chemist

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1835

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1917

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: ['ba??]; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).
He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.