Arthur Binz

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Arthur Heinrich Binz (born November 12, 1868 in Bonn , † January 25, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Life

Binz was the son of the pharmacologist Carl Binz and his wife Harriet Emily Binz nee. Schwabe. On his mother's side, he was largely related to the writer William Makepeace Thackeray .

Binz attended high school in Bonn and Owens College in Manchester . He then studied chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the University of Leipzig . In 1888 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Bonn .

1893 Binz was at Otto Wallach at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation the optical rotatory power of homologous and isomeric terpene derivatives and new derivatives of Fenchylamins About doctorate .

From 1894 to 1897, Binz earned his living as a chemist at the Rolffs & Co. calico factory in Siegburg . He then moved to his grandfather's factory, L. Schwabe & Co. , in Manchester. Binz used this time in Manchester for his habilitation , which he completed in Bonn in 1899.

In 1901 Binz married the writer Juanita Reutlinger from Paris . With her he had two daughters, including the future photographer Tita Binz .

job

In 1906, Binz accepted the offer at the Berlin School of Management and taught there as a lecturer. From 1911 to 1913 he headed this university as rector . After the First World War , Binz was entrusted with the management of the chemical department of the Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main in 1918 . In 1921 Binz was appointed director of the Chemical Institute at the Agricultural University in Berlin . As such, Binz acted as editor of the Zeitschrift für angewandte Chemie from 1922 to 1933 . He also re- edited the Encyclopedia Manual of Technical Chemistry by James Sheridan Muspratt .

On the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1928, the American Urological Association accepted Binz as an honorary member. A year later, the Technical University of Karlsruhe awarded Binz an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing.Eh ). From 1931 to 1933 Binz sat as Vice President on the board of the German Chemical Society .

In 1929, when he was looking for a cure for syphilis , he accidentally synthesized the first intravenous micrographic material Selectan , a radioactive contrast agent that was later sold under the name of uroselectan . Binz thus became one of the founders of excretory urography.

Binz always saw his research as an interface between chemistry and medicine.

Arthur Binz died in Berlin on January 25, 1943 at the age of 74. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf in the block "Trinitatis".

Fonts

  • About the optical rotatability of homologous and isomeric terpene derivatives and about new derivatives of fenchylamine. Publishing house Huth, Berlin 1893.
  • History of the uroselectans. In: Zeitschrift für Urologie , Volume 31 (1937), pp. 73-84.
  • Precious metals. Your curse and your blessing. Limpert, Berlin 1943.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16 , 355
  2. ↑ Alexander von Lichtenberg , Moses Swick: Clinical examination of the uroselectans. In: Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 8, 1929, pp. 2089 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Binz, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binz, Arthur Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1943
Place of death Berlin