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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






External links


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

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