Otto Wallach (March 27, 1847 at Königsberg - February 26, 1931 at Göttingen) was a GermanChemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1910 for work on alicyclic compounds. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Former German name of the city of Kaliningrad. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Landmark Gänseliesel fountain at the main market Göttingen ( â¶) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Look up chemist on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...-1... The term alicyclic compound refers to organic chemical compounds that are both aliphatic and cyclic. ...
Wallach's mother was Otillia Thoma Wallach; his father, Gerhard Wallach, was an official in the Prussian government.
OttoWallach was a highly regarded professor of chemistry whose curiosity about essential oils led to research that benefited both organic chemistry and an important industry.
Wallach's mother was Otillia Thoma Wallach; his father, Gerhard Wallach, was an official in the Prussian government whose post necessitated moves from Königsberg to Stettin (now in Poland and called Szczecin) and then to Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany.