Dietrich Schulte-Frohlinde

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Dietrich Friedrich Julius Schulte-Frohlinde (born December 17, 1924 in Munich ; † October 1, 2015 ) was a German chemist .

Life

Dietrich Schulte-Frohlinde was born on December 17, 1924 in Munich. He attended elementary school in Berlin (1929–33) and in Wismar (1933–34), where his father, Heinrich Schulte-Frohlinde , directed the North German Dornier works . He finished secondary school there in 1942 with a high school diploma . He was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service and, from October 15, 1942, into military service (tank grenadiers). Multiple wounded he fell on May 11, 1945 as a lieutenant in Soviet captivity from which he was released in March 1947th At the University of Heidelberg he took the pre-semester course for late returnees and was able to begin studying chemistry in the winter semester of 1947/48, now with a valid Abitur . In 1952 he graduated with a diploma thesis on polarographic keto - enol determination. Schulte-Frohlinde wrote his doctoral thesis from 1952 to 1956 with Richard Kuhn at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research on cis - trans rearrangements . From 1959, under Walter Seelmann-Eggebert, he was head of the newly established laboratory for radiation chemistry in the Institute for Radiochemistry at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center . He then completed his habilitation in 1963 at the TH Karlsruhe in the field of radiation chemistry and was appointed by Karl Ziegler as a scientific member and director of the independent radiation chemistry department of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (later the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry). He held this position from 1970 to 1992.

Scientific work

Schulte-Frohlinde worked intensively on photochemistry . He also increasingly took up radiation chemistry issues. With Klaus Eiben he succeeded in spectroscopic proof of the long sought-after hydrated electron . The first work on the radiation chemistry of DNA , which was to become a research focus in Mülheim , began with Clemens von Sonntag in Karlsruhe . In 1975, essential aspects of the radical-induced DNA chain break were elucidated. The expansion of pulse radiolysis , ESR spectroscopy , laser photolysis and chemical analysis made it possible to tackle issues with various methods. Recognizing that repair processes have a decisive influence on the consequences of radiation-induced damage, he has turned to radiobiological questions in recent years.

Awards

  • JJ Weiss Medal of the British Association for Radiation Research together with Clemens von Sonntag (1984)
  • LH Gray Medal of the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (1989)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Dietrich Schulte-Frohlinde , FAZ , November 5, 2015
  2. ↑ EPA Newsletters, No. 57 (July 1996) pp. 11-19: Dietrich Schulte-Frohlinde: Biographical facts from the scientific career.
  3. ↑ D. Schulte-Frohlinde and K. Eiben: Solvated electrons in frozen solutions. In: Journal of Nature Research A . 17, 1962, pp. 445-446 ( online ).
  4. ↑ C. von Sonntag The Chemical Basis of Radiation Biology, London: Taylor and Francis, 1987.
  5. ^ C. from Sunday. Free-Radical-Induced DNA Damage and Its Repair. A Chemical Perspective, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2006.
  6. ↑ M. Dizdaroglu, C. von Sonntag, and D. Schulte-Frohlinde. Strand breaks and sugar release by gamma irradiation of DNA in aqueous solution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 97, 2277 ... 2278 (1975).
personal data
SURNAME Schulte-Frohlinde, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulte-Frohlinde, Dietrich Friedrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2015