Walter Reppe
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Walter Julius Reppe was a German chemist. He is notable for his contributions to the chemistry of acetylene.
Walter Reppe
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer was a German chemist. He was the founder and first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research. He is known for the discovery of the Fischer–Tropsch process.
Walter Reppe
…Alkenes from thermal cracking are readily available, but acetylene is not. Together with his contemporaries Otto Roelen, Karl Ziegler, Hans Tropsch, and Franz Fischer, Reppe was a leader in demonstrating the utility of metal-catalyzed reactions in large scale synthesis of organic compounds. The economic benefits…
Franz Fischer (1911)