Hermann Staudinger:
Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 23, 1881 in Worms, Germany
Death:
September 8, 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Staudinger was a German organic chemist who was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries involving macromolecules or polymers. He discovered polymers were made of long chains of repeating molecules. He also discovered ketenes which are organic compounds that are starting material for many organic synthesis processes.
