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I never undertook my experiments to see if I was right but to see how compounds behaved. This disposition accounts for my indifference to theories.

Adolf von Baeyer

Men who are capable of modifying their first beliefs are very rare. This ability was one of the reasons for the success of Claude Bernard and Pasteur. Out of a very vivid imagination they forged new hypotheses all the time but abandoned them with equal ease as soon as experience contradicted them.

Adolf von Baeyer

Adolf von Baeyer

Adolf von Baeyer

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Born: October 31, 1835

Died: August 20, 1917 (aged 81)

Bio: Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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