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Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert) (2 November 1866 in Kölleda – 22 October 1956 in Hanover) was a German organic chemist who first synthesized synthetic rubber.

Hofmann studied chemistry in Rostock. On September 12, 1909, he filed a patent for the manufacture of the world's first synthetic rubber.

Honors

• In 1912, Hofmann received the Emil Fischer Medal from the German Chemical Society for his research on synthetic rubber.

See also

• Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev

References

1. See entry of Fritz Hofmann in Rostock Matrikelportal
2. "[[Lanxess]] documentation". Archived from the original on 2009-03-30. Retrieved 2009-09-12.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Fritz Hofmann in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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