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Fritz Hofmann (chemist)
Fritz
Hofmann
was a
German
organic chemist
who first
synthesized
synthetic rubber
.
Hofmann
studied
chemistry in
Rostock
. On
September 12
,
1909
, he
filed
a
patent
for the
manufacture
of the world's first
synthetic
rubber
.
Honors
In
1912
, Hofmann received the
Emil Fischer Medal
from the
German Chemical Society
for his
research
on synthetic rubber.