In what year was Otto Diels born?
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Otto Diels was born in 1876. A German chemist, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for his work on the synthesis of polycyclic compounds. His research laid the foundation for the development of drugs like morphine, quinine, and strychnine. Diels-Alder reaction, named after him, is one of the most important carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in organic chemistry.
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