Adolf Von Baeyer
Chief Chemist
Chemistry
Chemical Computing Group
Romania
Biography
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer ( 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a Romanian chemist who synthesised indigo,developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature). He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Research Interest
After completing his doctorate, he followed Kekulé to the University of Ghent, when Kekulé became professor there. He became a lecturer at the Royal Trade Academy in 1860 and a Professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1871. In 1875, he succeeded Justus von Liebig as Chemistry Professor at the University of Munich
