Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) Baeyer was an Assistant Professor under Kekule at Ghent (1858). After professorships at the Technical College (1860) and Strassburg (1872), he succeeded Liebig at Munich (1877). Chemistry of Dyes: First synthesis of indigo Chemistry of perhydro compounds related to benzene The chemistry of uric acid and barbituric acid Strain Theory Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1905)