✍ Scribed by Hartwig Höcker
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Macromolecular compounds have been essential products since the first stages of the development of life on earth. In addition to life determining proteins and nucleic acids, such macromolecular materials as rubber, leather, wool, and many others, were being used long before their particular molecular nature was disclosed. This discovery was first reported by Hermann Staudinger in 1920 in his first paper on macromolecules.
Werner Kern was born 100 years ago on the 9th of February 1906, in Tiengen near Waldshut in Baden, not far from the Swiss boarder, as the son of a lawyer. He studied chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg/Breisgau. In 1928 Kern joined Staudinger's group to undertake his Ph.D. on polyoxymethylene as a model of cellulose, and went on to obtain his degree in 1930 after which he became Staudinger's 'assistant' for education and research (first as a 'private' assistant and later as an 'ordinary' assistant).
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