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Gottingen (1869).<br> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910 was awarded to Otto Wallach "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds".</p><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><h5 style="display: inline-block; margin: 0;"><a href="faq.php#meandist">Mean distance</a>: 8.01</h5>  </td><td bgcolor="#006666"><font color="#2c8181">S</td><td bgcolor="#222299"><font color="#3535a2">N</td><td bgcolor="#800606"><font color="#9a3939">B</td><td bgcolor="#0000FF"><font color="#ffffff">C</td><td bgcolor="#12184a"><font color="#161c4d">P</td></tr></table> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="container"> <div class="btns noprint"> <a href="tree.php?pid=51872" class="btn btn-default">Tree</a> <a href="publications.php?pid=51872" class="btn btn-default">Publications</a> <a href="peoplelist.php?special=sim&specialN=51872" class="btn btn-default">Similar researchers</a> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed&term=Wallach%2BO[au]" target="_blank" class="btn btn-default">PubMed</a> <a href="reporterror.php?pid=51872" class="btn btn-default">Report error</a> </div> <div class="leftcol"> <div class="boxfloat" ><h4 style="display:inline-block;">Parents</h4> <a style="float: right; font-size: small" href="#" id="login-trigger" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">Sign in to add mentor</a> <div class="container" style="display:inline">  <table class="connection_list"> <tr style="border-bottom-style: none;text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=51873">Hans Julius Anton Edward Hübner</a></td> <td>grad student</td> <td>1869</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen">Universität Göttingen</a></td> </tr> <tr style="border-top-style: none;"><td colspan=5> (Über vom Toluol abgeleitete neue isomere Verbindungen.)</td></tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=21404">August Kekulé</a></td> <td>post-doc</td> <td>1870</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn">Universität Bonn</a></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=754275">Hermann Wichelhaus</a></td> <td>post-doc</td> <td>1869-1870</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin">Universität Berlin</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div>  <div class="boxfloat"><h4 style="display:inline-block;">Children</h4> <a style="float: right; font-size: small" href="#" id="login-trigger" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">Sign in to add trainee</a> <div class="container" style="display:inline;"> <table class='connection_list'> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=807221">Frederick Challenger</a></td> <td>grad student</td> <td></td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Uniiversity of Göttingen">Uniiversity of Göttingen</a></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=98498">Edward Kremers</a></td> <td>grad student</td> <td>1890</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen">Universität Göttingen</a></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=53963">Edward Bartow</a></td> <td>grad student</td> <td>1895</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen">Universität Göttingen</a></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=804397">Guy Manning Kerr</a></td> <td>grad student</td> <td>1896</td> <td><a href="peoplelist.php?searchinst=Göttingen">Göttingen</a></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td><a href="peopleinfo.php?pid=54130">Francis J. 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If you notice any publications incorrectly attributed to this author, please <a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">sign in</a> and mark matches as correct or incorrect.</p> </td></tr> <tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O, Weißenborn A. (<b>1924</b>) Über Diosphenol und homologe Verbindungen <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 437: 148-186</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O, Grote E. (<b>1919</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. I. Abwandlung von Menthon in Pulegenon <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 418: 36-69</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O, Standacher M. (<b>1918</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. Über Verbindungen der Eucarvonreihe <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 414: 367-375</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O. (<b>1918</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. Über das Verhalten der Nitrosochlorid-Additions-Produkte gegen Chlorwasserstoff abspaltende Mittel <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 414: 257-270</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O, Pelikan K. (<b>1918</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. I. Über das Verhalten des Pinolhydrats bei der Reduktion und über einige mit Dihydropinolhydrat isomere Glykole <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 414: 195-204</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O. (<b>1915</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. Über Isomerien in der Thujamenthon-Reihe <em>European Journal of Organic Chemistry</em>. 408: 163-182</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Haworth WN, Perkin WH, Wallach O. (<b>1913</b>) CXXIX. - Sylvestrene. the constitution of d-sylvestrene and its derivatives <em>Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions</em>. 103: 1228-1241</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Harries C, Hofmann F, Ditmar R, et al. (<b>1913</b>) Literatur <em>Zeitschrift FüR Analytische Chemie</em>. 52: 664-668</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O. (<b>1913</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. Zur Kenntnis der ungesättigten alicyclischen Kohlenwasserstoffe <em>Justus Liebigs Annalen Der Chemie</em>. 396: 264-284</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=51872" style="font-size: 12px;">Wallach O. (<b>1912</b>) Zur Kenntnis der Terpene und der ätherischen Öle. [Abhandlung CVIII.] <em>Justus Liebigs Annalen Der Chemie</em>. 388: 49-62</td></tr> </table> <a href="publications.php?pid=51872">See more...</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="loading-clock"></div> </div> </div> </div>  <footer> <div class="footer-container"> <div class="footer-bottom"> Added by: jandh (2011-07-04 13:57:19) - Is someone missing from the tree? <a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">Register/sign in</a> to make changes.<br> <img src="https://neurotree.org/sess_align.php?w=PHPSESSID&x=b4ejda4vsah0s0o26qo9skk4r2"/>Question? Ideas? Want to start a new tree? 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