until his death and whose contributions he acknowledged in his Nobel Prize acceptance.

In 1935 Staudinger became a Patron Member of the SS.

Legacy

Staudinger's groundbreaking elucidation of the nature of the high-molecular weight compounds he termed Makromoleküle paved the way for the birth of the field of polymer chemistry. Staudinger himself saw the potential for this science long before it was fully realized. "It is not

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