Fritz Hofmann (chemist)

Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert; 2 November 1866 in Kölleda – 22 October 1956 in Hanover) was a German organic chemist who first synthesized synthetic rubber.

Hofmann studied chemistry in Rostock.See entry of Fritz Hofmann in Rostock Matrikelportal 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.

See also Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev

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