Otto Wallach was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910, announced November 12, 1910. Otto Wallach, “in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds”. Otto Wallach: born 1847, Koenigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).