Alder, Kurt

Name:
Alder, Kurt
Detailed information:
(1902–1958). A German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Otto Diels in 1950 for a project involving a practical method for making ring compounds from chain compounds by forcing them to combine with maleic anhydride. This is known as the Diels-Alder reaction and provided a method for synthesis of complex organic compounds. Alder had degrees from the Universities of Berlin and Kiel.