Emma Wolffhardt
Emma Maria Wolffhardt (born July 27, 1899 ; died 1997 ) was a German industrial chemist at BASF and the first female chemist at BASF to do her own research. She was also the first to use the space-filling model to understand and improve organic synthesis.
Life
Wolffhardt studied at the University of Würzburg and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . She did her doctorate with Stefan Goldschmidt . Wolffhardt began her career at BASF in 1925. First, she had to work in the literature office of the main laboratory. Months later, Alwin Mittasch , who was laboratory manager at the time, was looking for an assistant, and Wolffhardt applied and was appointed Mittasch's assistant. Then she supported Mittasch in his scientific work. In 1940 she was given her own research area in which she researched the production of aviation fuel. She was the first to use the space-filling model to understand and improve organic synthesis. In this way, Wolffhardt was the first German person to achieve a yield of 8-10% for triptan . In 1950 Wolffhardt was the first female university graduate in the company's history to celebrate her 25th anniversary. In 1960 she retired. In 1997 she died in Heidelberg. She had an adopted daughter.
Selected publications
- Emma Wolffhardt: Contributions to the use of HA Stuart's atomic models in organic chemistry . In: Chemical Reports . 80, No. 1, 1947, pp. 64-76. doi : 10.1002 / cber.19470800113 .
- Emma Wolffhardt: Letters from Justus von Liebig to King Max II of Bavaria 1853-1860 ( German ). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1964, OCLC 439525317 .
- Emma Wolffhardt: "... Even luxury needs soda ...": Of the importance of a regulation by Maximilian II for the establishment of BASF Ludwigshafen ( German ) 1965, OCLC 927478815 .
- Stefan Goldschmidt, Anton Wolf, Emma Wolffhardt, Israel Drimmer, Simon Nathan: About hydrazyls . In: Justus Liebig's Annals of Chemistry . 437, No. 1, 1924, ISSN 1099-0690 , pp. 194-226. doi : 10.1002 / jlac.19244370113 .
- Emma Wolffhardt: About Diphenyl-acyl-hydrazyls . Würzburg 1924 (dissertation).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i THE ANILINES . Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- ^ Cambridge Scholars Publisher: Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, January 14, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5275-2497-2 , pp. 58–.
- ↑ a b c Renate Tobies: "Despite all male culture": Women in mathematics and natural sciences . Campus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35749-2 , pp. 268-269.
- ^ A b Jeffrey A. Johnson: German women in chemistry, 1925-1945 (part II) . In: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine . 6, No. 1, December 1, 1998, ISSN 1420-9144 , pp. 65-90. doi : 10.1007 / BF02914207 .
- ↑ BASF career: Another admirable woman in the #history of #BASF is Dr. Emma Wolffhardt. . March 15, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- ↑ Staff and University News . In: News from chemistry and technology . 22, No. 13, 1974, ISSN 1868-0054 , pp. 265-266. doi : 10.1002 / nadc.19740221310 .
- ↑ a b c d Jeffrey Allan Johnson: The Case of the Missing German Quantum Chemists: On Molecular Models, Mobilization, and the Paradoxes of Modernizing Chemistry in Nazi Germany . In: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences . 43, No. 4, 2013, ISSN 1939-1811 , pp. 391-452. doi : 10.1525 / hsns.2013.43.4.391 .
- ^ A b Wolffhardt: Contributions to the use of the atomic models by HA Stuart in organic chemistry . 1947, p. 64-76 .
- ^ Munich Chemical Society . In: Angewandte Chemie . 60, No. 7-8, 1948, ISSN 1521-3757 , pp. 219-219. doi : 10.1002 / anie.19480600718 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolffhardt, Emma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolffhardt, Emma Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1997 |