Franz Knoop
Georg Franz Knoop (born September 20, 1875 in Shanghai , † August 2, 1946 in Tübingen ) was a German chemist .
Life
After finishing school at the Johanneum in Hamburg, he studied medicine in Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin. In 1900 he was in Freiburg with Eugen Baumann Doctor of Medicine doctorate . In 1909 Knoop became an associate professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1919 he succeeded Heinrich Kiliani as a full professor at the chair of chemistry at the Medical Faculty in Freiburg. From 1925 he was a member of the Leopoldina and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1928 he moved to the University of Tübingen . He was a specialist advisor at the German Research Foundation and, during the Nazi era, chairman of the Leopoldina since 1935 . In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP .
Together with Dankwart Ackermann , he founded the "German Physiological-Chemical Society" in 1942 (today Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ).
plant
In 1905, Knoop discovered the β-oxidation of fatty acids . In addition to Hans Adolf Krebs and Carl Martius , he clarified the reaction sequence of the citric acid cycle in 1937 . He determined the structure of histidine and proved that amino acids can be synthesized not only in the plant organism, but also in the animal body.
literature
- Reinhard Kattermann: Knoop, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 214 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Knoop in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Franz Knoop at academictree.org, accessed on February 24 2018th
- ^ Member entry of Franz G. Knoop at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Franz Knoop. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 321.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knoop, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knoop, Georg Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1946 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |