Otto Wallach:
Otto Wallach was a German chemist whose research into terpenes earned him the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Birth:
March 27, 1847 in Königsberg, Germany.
Death:
February 26, 1931 in Göttingen, Germany.
Claim to Fame:
Otto Wallach was awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to organic chemistry and pioneering work on alicyclic compounds. Alicyclic compounds contain carbon rings that are not aromatic and is both aliphatic and cyclic. He determined many molecules of the C10H16 family that had many different names at the time were all the same molecule or had very minor differences.
