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Otto Wallach
1847Mar, 27

Otto Wallach

Otto Wallach, Jewish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
Otto Wallach (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈvalax] (listen); 27 March 1847 – 26 February 1931) was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds.

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