Adolf von baeyer biography for kids
Adolf von baeyer biography for kids age.
Nobel Prize winner
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was born in Berlin, Germany, on October 31, 1835, the eldest of five children in a family distinguished in both literature and natural sciences.
Adolf von baeyer biography for kids
His father had developed the European system of geodetic measurement and was chief of the Berlin Geodetic Institute when Adolf was born, and Adolf developed a fascination with chemistry at an early age. When he was twelve, he discovered a new double salt of copper.
Adolf studied mathematics and chemistry at Berlin University from 1853 to 1855, but his earlier fascination with chemistry returned and in 1856 he transferred to the university in Heidelberg to study under Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and to work in the laboratory of Friedrich August Kekulé.
He published his first work, concerning his studies on methyl chloride in 1857. The work he did on cacodyl (arsenic) compounds while in Kekulé's laboratory earned him a Ph.D. from Berlin University in 1858.
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