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Otto Diels
Otto Paul Hermann Diels (January 23 1876 - March 7 1954), a German chemist. He was the son of a professor of Philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in Chemistry.
Diels taught at the University of Berlin and at the University of Kiel. Two of his sons were killed in World War II.
In 1950 he was awarded (with Kurt Alder, his student) the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis".
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