Franz Adickes (chemist)
Franz Erich Wilhelm Adickes (born November 8, 1897 in Kiel ; † October 22, 1973 ) was a German chemist and university professor.
Life
He was the son of Kiel University professor Erich Adickes and attended high school in Tübingen after his father at the local university had received a professorship. He then studied in Tübingen and Kiel, at the Technical University of Munich and at the University of Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1922 and completed his habilitation in 1927. The topic of his dissertation in Freiburg was the degradation of isodeoxybilic acid .
In 1933 Franz Adickes received an extraordinary professorship in organic chemistry in Tübingen. From 1938 to 1945 he was a senior government councilor at the military medical academy and at the same time associate professor at the University of Berlin.
In 1946 he switched to the private sector and became a chemist in the scientific department of the company CH Boehringer in Ingelheim am Rhein. In 1949 he succeeded in improving the healing properties of scopolamine by adding a butyl residue .
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Wer ist's , Berlin 1935, p. 8.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Adickes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Franz Adickes
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adickes, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adickes, Franz Erich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1973 |