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Othmar Zeidler (29 August – 17 June ) was an Austrian chemist credited with the first synthesis of DDT.

He was born on 29 August in Vienna a son of the Viennese pharmacist Franz Zeidler. Othmar's brother, Franz Zeidler Jr. (–), also became a chemist and would collaborate with him on several projects.

When the German chemistry student Othmar Zeidler concocted DDT in , he shrugged, and made due note.

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was first produced in.

It was a molecule synthesized in by the Austrian chemist Othmar Zeidler, the dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, whose abbreviation is DDT.

This compound (14) was first synthesized in by Viennese pharmacologist Othmar Zeidler.

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As a doctoral student with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Strasbourg, then in Germany, Zeidler is credited with the first synthesis of the insecticide Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane or DDT in Othmar returned to Austria before and, after working at the I.

chemischen Universitätslaboratorium at the University of Vienna, became a pharmacist in the Fünfhaus district of the capital. He died in Mauer near Vienna on 17 June