Erich Thilo
Erich Rudolf Julius Thilo (born August 27, 1898 in Neubrandenburg , † June 25, 1977 in East Berlin ) was a German chemist .
Live and act
Erich Thilo studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on nickel diacetyldioxime and its derivatives. After initially being a private lecturer at Berlin University, he was appointed associate professor for inorganic chemistry there in 1938. In 1943 he received a chair for inorganic chemistry at the University of Graz . In 1946 he returned to Berlin and taught at the Humboldt University until his retirement in 1967. He was also director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1950 to 1967 . In 1953 he was elected first chairman of the GDR Chemical Society . Since 1949 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Thilo worked specifically in the field of inorganic high- silicate- based polymers . In 1961 he was awarded the GDR First Class National Prize for this work .
Fonts (selection)
- Inorganic chemistry in question and answer. Barth, Leipzig 1948; 15th edition 1977.
- Lectures on general and inorganic experimental chemistry. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1955.
honors and awards
- 1949 Full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
- 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1956 member of the Leopoldina
- 1956 Clemens Winkler Medal of the Chemical Society of the GDR
- 1959 Order Banner of Labor
- 1961 National Prize of the GDR, 1st class for science and technology
- 1967 Liebig commemorative coin from the Society of German Chemists
- 1973 Great Scientist of the People
A street was named after him on the grounds of the Science and Technology Park ( WISTA ) in Berlin-Adlershof in 2002.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Thilo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Erich Thilo in the state bibliography MV
- Short biography of Erich Thilo in the scientific collections at Humboldt University
- Erich Thilo in the directory of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honor for Outstanding Achievement. In: Neues Deutschland , October 7, 1961, p. 7
- ↑ Erich-Thilo-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thilo, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thilo, Erich Rudolf Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neubrandenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1977 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |