Walter Bock
German chemist
Walter Bock (20 January 1895 – 25 October 1948) was a German chemist who developed styrene-butadiene copolymer by emulsion polymerization as a synthetic rubber (SBR).
Early life
Walter Bock was born on January 10, 1895, in the small village of Wenzen (now part of Einbeck) in the Duchy of Brunswick. He was the fourth of nine children. His father, Wilhelm Bock, was the sole teacher in Wenzen. From 1905 to 1914 Bock attended high school in Brunswick.
Immediately after graduation he joined the army and served as an officer in World War I. He commanded an infantry company until he was wounded in July 1918.
In October 1918 he began studying chemistry. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in October 1921, Bock found employment as chemist at the Köln Rottweil AG in Premnitz. In the fall of 1924 Bock joined the Dr. Zellner laboratories in Berlin, where he took charge of the chemical-pharmaceutical department.
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