Jack D. Dunitz
Jack David Dunitz (born March 29, 1923 in Glasgow , † September 12, 2021 ) was a British chemist .
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Jack Dunitz received his PhD in chemistry from Glasgow University in 1947, worked from 1946 to 1948 and 1951 to 1953 at Oxford University with Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , from 1948 to 1951 and 1953 to 1954 at Caltech with Linus Pauling , from 1954 to 1955 with the National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and from 1956 to 1957 at the Royal Institution , London.
In 1957 he received a professorship at the organic chemistry laboratory at ETH Zurich , which he held until his retirement in 1990. Since 1992 he has been part of François Diederich's research group at ETH Zurich.
Together with his colleague Hans Beat Bürgi (* 1942), in an extensive crystallographic study, he determined the angle (107 °) at which a nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon atom takes place. This angle was named Bürgi-Dunitz-Winkel .
On September 12, 2021, Dunitz died after a brief serious illness at the age of 98. He worked in crystallography for over 70 years.
Memberships and prices (selection)
1974 Dunitz became a member of the Royal Society . In 1990 he received the Gregori Aminoff Prize . He is also a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1979), the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . He is also an external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences , the American Philosophical Society (1997) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997).
Fonts
- X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules . 1979
- Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry ... and Elsewhere . (with Edgar Heilbronner ), 1992.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jack D. Dunitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV at ETH Zurich
- AS Dreiding : Jack D. Dunitz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 21, 2004 .
Individual evidence
- ^ HB Bürgi, JD Dunitz, JM Lehn, G. Wipff: In Stereochemistry of reaction paths at carbonyl centers . Tetrahedron 1974 , 30 , 1563-1572. doi : 10.1016 / S0040-4020 (01) 90678-7
- ↑ Jack Dunitz passed away , on chab.ethz.ch, on September 13, 2021. Accessed on September 13, 2021.
- ↑ Member entry by Jack D. Dunitz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 4, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dunitz, Jack D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunitz, Jack David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| BIRTH DATE | March 29, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2021 |