Andreas Grüssner

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Andreas Grüssner (born July 1, 1910 as Endre Grüssner in Gyöngyös ) was a Hungarian chemist .

Andreas Grüssner was born as the son of the landowner Zoltán Grüssner and his wife Ella (née Téven) in Gyöngyös about 90 km east of Budapest . He attended primary school and, from autumn 1920, the state grammar school in Gyöngyös before he switched to the evangelical grammar school in Budapest. After taking his high school diploma , he began studying chemistry at the ETH Zurich in the same year (1928) and graduated with a diploma as an engineer-chemist (1932).

Then worked under the direction of Tadeus Reichstein in his organic-chemical laboratory and made a contribution to the synthesis of ascorbic acid . He received his doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1934 ; Leopold Ružička acted as speaker .

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Individual evidence

  1. Facsimile of the entry in the birth register in the HUNGARICANA database , accessed on December 27, 2017.
  2. A. Grüssner: H acid . Diploma thesis ETH Zurich, Inst. For Organic Technology, No. 1307, WS 1931/32
  3. Reichstein, T., Grüssner, A. and Oppenauer, R. (1933): The synthesis of d-ascorbic acid (d-form of the C vitamin) , Helv. Chim. Acta 16 , pp. 561-565; doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19330160177
  4. Trommer, H., Böttcher, R. and Neubert, RHH (2002): Ascorbic acid - a vitamin like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde , Pharmaceutical Newspaper Online, 2002.
  5. Andreas Grüssner: Contributions to the knowledge of furan - synthesis of 1-ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and related compounds Diss. Techn. Wiss. ETH Zurich, No. 777, 1934.