Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni (born December 6, 1928 in Lugano ; † June 10, 2020 ) was a Swiss chemist .
Life
He studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich . In 1955 he wrote his doctoral thesis ("On configurative relationships in steroid and terpene compounds") with Oskar Jeger . From 1961 Arigoni was a private lecturer, from 1962 associate professor and from 1967 to 1996 full professor for special organic chemistry at the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich; in 1999 he retired . He then worked as AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1980 to 1987), as Alexander Todd Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (1981) and as RB Woodward Visiting Professor at Harvard University (1983).
His research areas were bio-organic stereochemistry and the biosynthesis of natural substances (including vitamin B12 ). In his studies he significantly expanded the insight into the dynamics of enzymatic processes, especially their stereochemistry.
Arigoni was honored with the Marcel Benoist Prize for his work in 1991. He died in June 2020 at the age of 91.
Honors, awards and memberships
- Award and Silver Medal, ETH Zurich (1955)
- Leopold Ružička Prize, ETH Zurich (1961)
- Piria Medal, Italian Chemical Society (1962)
- Ernest Guenther Award , American Chemical Society (1970)
- Cannizzaro Award, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma (1971)
- Flintoff Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry , London, UK (1981)
- Davy Medal , the Royal Society , London, UK (1983)
- Robert Robinson Award , Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (1984)
- Welch Award in Chemistry (1985)
- Arthur C. Cope Award , American Chemical Society , USA (1986)
- Paul Karrer Medal , University of Zurich (1989)
- Quilico Medal, Italian Chemical Society (1992)
- Marcel Benoist Prize (1991)
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle / Saale)
- Academia Europaea (London)
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze , detta dei XL, (Rome)
- Honorary member of the Societé Chimique de France, the Società Chimica Italiana, the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Boston ), foreign member of the Royal Society (London) and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington ), Honorary member of the Swiss Chemical Society
- Doctor hc from the University of Paris-South (Paris)
literature
- Albert Eschenmoser , Prof. Duilio A. on his 60th birthday , in Chimia 42, 1988, 390 f.
- Engelbert Zass: Duilio Arigoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 17, 2001 , accessed February 21, 2020 .
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae by Duilio Arigoni ( Memento from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- The Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1989 (detail)
- Who's Who at ETHZ
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Duilio Arigoni at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th
- ↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassenbaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 15, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
- ↑ Julia Ecker: Prof. em. Duilio Arigoni dies at 91st ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, June 12, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arigoni, Duilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 2020 |