Born: 23-Mar-1881
Birthplace: Worms, Germany
Died: 8-Sep-1965
Location of death: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Showed polymers have long chains

Father: Dr. Franz Staudinger
Wife: Magda Woit (plant physiologist)

    University: University of Darmstadt
    University: University of Munich
    University: PhD, University of Halle (1903)
    Teacher: Lecturer, Strasbourg University (1907)
    Professor: Organic Chemistry, Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe
    Professor: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (1912-26)
    Professor: Chemistry, University of Freiburg (1926-51)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953

Author of books:
Die Ketene (1912, chemistry)
Anleitung zur organischen qualitativen Analyse (1923, chemistry)
Tabellen zu den Vorlesungen über allgemeine und anorganische Chemie (1927, chemistry)
Die hochmolekularen organischen Verbindungen, Kautschak und Cellulose (1932, chemistry)
Organische Kolloidchemie (1940, chemistry)
Fortschritte der Chemie, Physik und Technik der makromolekularen Stoffe (1939-42, chemistry, 2 vols., with Vieweg and Röhrs)
Makromolekulare Chemie und Biologie (1947, chemistry)
Vom Aufstand der technischen Sklaven (1947, chemistry)
Arbeitserinnerungen (1961, memoir)

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