Giovanni Battista Bonino

Giovanni Battista Bonino (born May 3, 1899 in Genoa ; † December 11, 1985 ibid) was an Italian chemist. He was a quantum chemistry pioneer in Italy in the 1930s. Bonino was a professor at the University of Bologna .

Bonino received his laureate in chemistry in Genoa as early as 1920, where he was assistant in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1923. In 1925 he received the license to teach physical chemistry in Bologna and from 1927 was associate professor for physical chemistry, initially at the engineering faculty, and in 1930 he became a full professor in Bologna. He stayed in Bologna until 1958 except for the period 1945/46 when he was temporarily at the University of Pavia. From 1935 to 1941 he was head of the Faculty of Pharmacy and from 1941 to 1944 that of Chemical Engineering and 1947 to 1958 of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In 1959 he became a professor of applied chemistry in Genoa. In 1975 he retired.

He did research on infrared and Raman spectra, magneto- and electrochemistry and developed a theory of aromatic rings, dealt with photochemistry and the solution of strong electrolytes. Most recently he dealt more with applied chemistry and chemical process engineering.

In 1938 he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal . He was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1942), a member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin and since 1932 of the Leopoldina . He played an important role in the Italian National Research Council CNR, where he was head of chemistry.

literature

• Andreas Karachalios: Giovanni Battista Bonino and the Making of Quantum Chemistry in Italy in the 1930s, in: Carsten Reinhardt (Ed.) Chemical sciences in the 20th century. Bridging boundaries. Wiley-VCH 2001

Web links

• Biography at the University of Bologna, Italian

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Giovanni Battista Bonino at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.