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Adolf von Baeyer

Born on October 31, 1835

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German:; 31 October 1835, Berlin – 20 August 1917, Starnberg) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).

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