Emile Cherbuliez

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Emile Cherbuliez (Paul Emil Cherbuliez) (born January 22, 1891 in Mulhouse , † October 28, 1985 in Geneva ) was a Swiss chemist.

Cherbuliez was the son of the professor of theoretical physics and science historian Emile Cherbuliez and Emma Koeckert. Cherbuliez studied chemical engineering at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1913 and in 1917 in Zurich at Pierre Weiss (About the Magnetisierungskoëffizienten of cupric salts in very dilute solution) and 1918 in Munich doctorate . In 1925 he became associate professor and in 1939 full professor of chemistry in Geneva. From 1952 to 1966 he held the chair for pharmaceutical and organic chemistry there.

From 1948 to 1971 he was the editor of Helvetica Chimica Acta. In 1976 he received the Paracelsus Prize (at that time still Paracelsus Medal). In 1972 he received an honorary doctorate in Zurich and in 1973 in Lausanne.

He was the brother of the musicologist Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez . In 1924 he married the doctor Jeanne Stephani. With Conrad Hans Eugster , he edited supplementary volumes on Walter Karrer , Constitution and Occurrence of Organic Plant Substances , from 1976 onwards .

literature

  • Obituary in Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 69, 1986, pp. 1-3
  • Festschrift Prof. Dr. Emile Cherbuliez, Helvetica Chimica Acta, Birkhäuser 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. He gave some volumes of the complete works of Leonhard Euler out
  2. Biographies, publications and academic family tree of Paul Emil Cherbuliez at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.