Kurt Alder shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of the diene synthesis. His work with Otto Diels made it possible to build six-membered rings in predictable ways and greatly expanded synthetic organic chemistry.
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Kurt Alder
Nobel Prize history for Kurt Alder based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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