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Kurt Alder

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Chemist
Died
Jun 19, 1958
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Germany
About
German chemist who is most famous for his work in discovering the Diels-Alder reaction. The insecticide, Aldrin, is caused by the reaction and is named after him.
Family
He got married to Irene Hawthorne, a former prima ballerina, on March 10, 1948; then married Christiane Tocco on September 16, 1965.

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