OCTOBER 31/CHESHVAN 16
1835:
Birthday of Adolf Von Baeyer, German organic chemist whose many discoveries included a derivative for barbiturate sleeping pills and synthetic indigo dye. He went on to correctly theorize the structures of carbon rings and benzene, and win the 1905 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (the first Jew to do so).
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