Othmar Zeidler
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Othmar Zeidler (1859 - 26 June 1911) was a German Austrian chemist.
As a doctoral student at University of Strasbourg, Zeidler is credited with first synthesis of the insecticide Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane or DDT in 1874, He worked with Adolf von Baeyer at Straßburg.
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- http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/history/index.htm
- Othmar Zeidler (1874). "Verbindungen von Chloral mit Brom- und Chlorbenzol". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 7 (2): 1180–1181. doi:.
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