Egon Wiberg

Egon Gustaf Martin Wiberg (born June 3, 1901 in Güstrow ; † November 24, 1976 in Munich ) was a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1938.

Life

Wiberg studied chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (TH Karlsruhe) from 1921 and graduated with a doctorate in 1927 . He was an academic student of Stefan Goldschmidt and his doctoral thesis dealt with the topic "On the breakdown of amino acids and dipeptides by hypobromite". In 1931 he completed his habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe. In 1932 he was appointed head of the department. In 1936 he became an adjunct professor at the TH Karlsruhe and in 1938 provisional head of the extraordinary department (apl. Prof.) for inorganic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 1943 he was co-editor of the "Textbook of Chemistry" founded by Arnold F. Holleman , which appeared from 1955 as the "Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry" . In 1951 he became a full professor and director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. One of his students is the inorganic chemist Max Schmidt , who received his doctorate from Wiberg in 1951.

Egon Wiberg is the father of the author Nils Wiberg, who was born in 1934 .

research

Work areas were hydrides of the chemical elements beryllium , magnesium , boron , aluminum and other metals, as well as phosphorus, boron, silicon and boron-nitrogen compounds.

Awards and memberships

• 1961: Bavarian Order of Merit

Science awards

• Alfred Stock Memorial Prize (1950) (1st prize winner)

Memberships and honorary positions

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Society of German Chemists (1958)
• Deputy President of the Society of German Chemists (1959 and 1962)
• President of the Society of German Chemists (1960 to 1961)
• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1952)
• Member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences (1959)
• Chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors (1971 to 1972)
• Honorary doctorate Dr. rer. nat. hc from the Technical University of Aachen
• Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology (1965)
• Board member of DECHEMA
• Chairman of the German Central Committee for Chemistry
• Board member of the German Association of Technical and Scientific Associations
• IUPAC Commissioner
• Member of the main committee, the board of trustees and the senate of the German Research Foundation
• Chairman of the commission for transuranic research in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• Member of the administrative committee of the Deutsches Museum in Munich

The Egon Wiberg Lecture was named after him for outstanding achievements in research and teaching in inorganic chemistry.

Web links

• H. Nöth: Egon Wiberg, 3.6.1901 - 24.11.1976 , Bavarian Academy of Sciences - Yearbook 1977, p. 254 PDF (obituary)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Koschel: The development and differentiation of the subject chemistry at the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 703–749; here: p. 744.
2. ↑ Nachr. Chem. Techn., 1961, 9 , p. 176.
3. ^ Entry on Wiberg, Egon. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on April 11, 2015.
4. ^ Member entry by Egon Wiberg at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 24, 2012.
5. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.