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10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herman F. Mark.md

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   - WW2
   - Nazi
 summary: "Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann."
+born: 1895-05-03
+died: 1992-04-06
+location: "Vienna, Austria"
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 Herman F. Mark was an Austrian chemist who became an eminent figure in polymer science. He was a colleague of [[Ernst David Bergmann]] at the Emil Fischer Institute of the University of Berlin in the early 1920s, where they worked together and published joint papers on the chemical structure of rubber, paint, and adhesives.[^1]