1835–1917 German organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner who synthesized indigo and who developed the strain theory of atomic bonding.
Keywords: Indigo; strain theory; photosynthesis
Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von
WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002418
| Further Reading | |
| book Baeyer A (1905) Erinnerungen aus meinen Leben. Gesammelte Werke, 2 vols. Braunschweig: Vieweg. | |
| book Baeyer A (1966) "Nobel lecture". Nobel Lectures Chemistry. 1901–1921. Amsterdam: Nobel Foundation/Elsevier. | |
| book Fruton JS (1990) Contrasts in Scientific Styles, chap. 4 and appendix 5. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. | |
| book Gienapp RA (1970) "Adolf von Baeyer". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1, pp. 389–391. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Huisgen R (1986) Adolf von Baeyer's scientific achievements. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 25: 297–311. | |
| book Partington JR (1961–1970) History of Chemistry, vol. 4, pp. 775–788. Macmillan: Basingstoke. | |
| book Perkin WH (1933) "The Baeyer Memorial Lecture". Memorial Lectures of the Chemical Society 1914–1932, pp. 47–74. London: The Chemical Society. | |
