Alan J. Rocke
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LOCATION: Cleveland, OH, United States
Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Author of The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry and other books.
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Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist who accomplished the first generally accepted synthesis of an organic compound from inorganic materials. Kolbe studied chemistry with Friedrich Wöhler at the University of Göttingen and earned his doctorate in 1843 with Robert Bunsen at the University of Marburg…
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