Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer:
Adolf von Baeyer was a German organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 31, 1835 in Berlin, Germany
Death:
August 20, 1917 in Starnberg, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Baeyer was a German organic chemist who was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition for his contributions to organic and industrial chemistry through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds. He was the first to artificially synthesize the purple dye indigo previously available only from plants and was the first to synthesize synthetic fluorescein, a dye that glows under ultraviolet light. He also discovered the phthalein dyes and barbituric acid, the basic compound of barbiturates.
