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Al·der   (äl'dər)   
German chemist. He shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the structure of organic matter.
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Alder, Kurt

German chemist who was the corecipient, with the German organic chemist Otto Diels, of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction, or diene synthesis, a widely used method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds.

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