Gerold Schwarzenbach

Karl Gerold Schwarzenbach (born March 15, 1904 in Horgen ; † May 20, 1978 in Zurich ) was a Swiss chemist .

Life

Schwarzenbach grew up in Horgen , his father was the director of the silk dye factory there. He studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and received his doctorate in 1928 with his dissertation studies on the salt formation of stain dyes . In 1929 he was first a Ramsey Fellow at University College London and then senior assistant to Paul Karrer at the University of Zurich . From 1930, the year of his habilitation, until 1955 he was a private lecturer and later professor (1936 titular professor, 1943 associate professor, 1947 full professor) for analytical and special inorganic chemistry at the University of Zurich. In 1955 he became a full professor at the ETH Zurich and head of the laboratory for inorganic chemistry until he retired in 1973.

In 1937/38 he was a Rockefeller Fellow with Leonor Michaelis at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City and with Linus Pauling at Caltech . He was also at Iowa State College.

Structural formula of EDTA

One of his main research topics was coordination chemistry . Schwarzenbach played a key role in researching EDTA , one of the most widely used ligands still today . In 1945 he developed the method of chelatometry (complexometry), about which he wrote a standard work.

Awards

• 1936 Werner Prize.
• 1962 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
• 1963 Marcel Benoist Prize .
• 1963 Talanta Medal.
• 1966 Paul Karrer lecture
• 1966 member of the Leopoldina .
• 1967 Torbern Bergmann Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society .
• 1971 honorary doctorate from the University of Bern .
• 1974 Honorary doctorate from the University of Friborg (CH).
• 1976 Paracelsus Medal .

Publications

• Schwarzenbach, Flaschka, "The Complexometric Titration", 5th edition 1965, Enke Verlag, Stuttgart.

literature

• Walter Schneider:  Schwarzenbach, Karl Gerold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 17 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Hansen: Schwarzenbach, Gerold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Literature by and about Gerold Schwarzenbach in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marcel Benoist Prize - The previous winners: Gerold Schwarzenbach
2. ^ Member entry by Karl Schwarzenbach at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 10, 2016.
3. ↑ Lista mottagare. Svenska Kemisamfundet, accessed on September 7, 2019 .