1847–1931 German organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner who worked on terpenes.
Keywords: terpenes; molecular rearrangements
Wallach, Otto
WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002947
| Further Reading | |
| book Wallach O (1909) Die Terpene und Campher. Leipzig, Germany: Veit. | |
| book Goldsmith RH (1993) "O. Wallach". In: James LK (ed.) Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901–1992, pp. 69–74. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. | |
| book Leicester HM (1976) "Otto Wallach". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 14, pp. 141–142. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Magill FN (1990) The Nobel Prize Winners Chemistry, vol. 1, pp. 143–152. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. | |
| Partridge WS and Schierz ER (1947) Otto Wallach, the first organizer of terpenes. Journal of Chemical Education 24: 106–108. | |
| book Ruika L (1932) Otto Wallach. Journal of the Chemical Society 1582–1597. | |
| book Wasson T (1987) Nobel Prize Winners, pp. 1099–1101. New York: HW Wilson. | |
