hereditary nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1895: admission into the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts 1903: Liebig Medal, awarded by the German Chemical Society 1905: Nobel Prize in Chemistry The has been awarded annually since 1911. His name is reflected in various "name reactions" as the Baeyer–Villiger oxidation and Baeyer's reagent. There is also the Von Baeyer nomenclature in structural chemistry and Baeyer strain theory (which granted him the Nobel prize) of alicyclic compounds. In 2009 von Baeyer lunar crater was named after him. Personal life In 1868, Baeyer married Adelheid (Lida) Bendemann, the daughter of a family friend, and together the couple had three children: Eugenie, Hans, and . He died on 20 August 1917 in Starnberg at the age of 81. See also Antimanic drugs Barbituric acid Hydantoin Indole Nitrosobenzene Phenolphthalein Picoline Resorcinarene References External links Speech given by Anders Lindstedt, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1905, upon Baeyer's receiving the Nobel Prize 1835 births 1917 deaths 19th-century German chemists 20th-century German chemists Scientists from Berlin German people of Jewish descent German Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Chemistry Organic chemists Heidelberg University alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Foreign Members of the Royal Society Members of the Lincean Academy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) German Lutherans Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities