What is Kurt Alder?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Kurt Alder |image = Kurt Alder Nobel.jpg |image_size = |birth_date = {{birth date|1902|7|10|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Königshütte]], [[Silesia Province|Silesia]], [[Imperial Germany|Germany]] |nationality = German |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1958|6|20|1902|7|10}} |death_place = [[Cologne]], [[West Germany]] |field = [[Organic chemistry]] |work_institution = [[IG Farben|I G Farben Industrie]], <br>[[University of Cologne]] |alma_mater = [[University of Berlin]] <br> [[University of Kiel]] |known_for = [[Diels-Alder reaction]] |prizes = [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (1950) }} {{Nobelprize|Chemistry}}'''Kurt Alder''' (July 10, 1902 – June 20, 1958) was a [[Germany|German]] [[chemistry|chemist]] and [[Nobel laureate]]. ==Biography== Alder was born in the industrial area of [[Königshütte]], [[Silesia]] (modern day [[Chorzów]]). He received his early schooling there. Alder left the area for political reasons<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1950/alder-bio.html|title=Biography|publisher=The Nobel Foundation|accessdate=2011-07-27}}</ref> when Königshütte became part of [[Poland]] in 1922. He studied chemistry at the [[University of Berlin]] from 1922, and later at the [[University of Kiel]] where his earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1926 for work supervised by [[Otto Diels|Diels]]. In 1930 Alder was appointed reader for chemistry at [[Kiel]], and promoted to lecturer in 1934. In 1936 he left Kiel to join [[IG Farben|I G Farben Industrie]] at [[Leverkusen]], where he worked on [[synthetic rubber]]. In 1940, he was appointed Professor of Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the [[University of Cologne]] and Director of the Institute of Chemistry there. Throughout this time and despite the many obstacles to original research in Europe at the time, he continued a systematic program of investigations of his particular interests in the [[Organic synthesis|synthesis]] of [[organic compound]]s. In all he publishe