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Karl Johann Freudenberg

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German chemist (1886-1983)

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Karl Johann Freudenberg was a German chemist who did early seminal work on the absolute configurations to carbohydrates, terpenes, and steroids, and on the structure of cellulose and other polysaccharides, and on the nature, structure, and biosynthesis of lignin.

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Awards 4

1963Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1952Emil Fischer Medal
1952Fresenius Prize
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Karl Johann Freudenberg was a German chemist who did early seminal work on the absolute configurations to carbohydrates, terpenes, and steroids, and on the structure of cellulose and other polysaccharides, and on the nature, structure, and biosynthesis of lignin. The Research Institute for the Chemistry of Wood and Polysaccharides at the University of Heidelberg was created for him in the mid to late 1930s, and he led this until 1969.

Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1886 to 1983 · aged 97
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