Hans Brockmann (chemist, 1903)
Hans Brockmann (born October 18, 1903 in Altkloster ; † May 1, 1988 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist .
Life
Brockmann received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Halle under Daniel Vorländer with the subject of the synthesis of some polypeptides and studies of the behavior and the behavior of some derivatives towards dilute alkali, dilute acids and ferments . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . After his habilitation at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , he worked from 1936 to 1941 in the field of organic chemistry under the Nobel Prize winner from 1928, Adolf Windaus . In 1941 he was given a chair at the Imperial University of Poznan .
In 1945 Brockmann returned to Göttingen as the successor from Windaus. From 1945 to 1972 he was director of the newly created Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he worked as a university lecturer and researcher. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
Brockmann was able to isolate an active ingredient called vitamin D 3 from fish liver oils . This vitamin D 3 is the anti- rachitic factor of liver oil (also researched by Windaus) , which has been widely used to combat rickets .
But especially in the field of antibiotics research, u. a. with the structure elucidation and the synthesis of actinomycin and related compounds, he gained worldwide recognition.
Lutz Friedjan Tietze from Dortmund was the successor to Hans Brockmann at the Institute for Organic Chemistry in 1978 .
His son Hans Brockmann (* 1936) also became a chemist.
Publications
- Synthesis of some polypeptides and studies of their behavior, as well as that of some derivatives towards dilute alkali, dilute acids and ferments. Natural science Dissertation, Berlin / Halle 1928.
- (Ed .: K. Freudenberg): Stereochemistry. A summary of the results, fundamentals and problems. (in individual representations), Deuticke, Leipzig (among others) 1933; XVI + 1,509 pp.
- Research on Actinomycins. Essay. In: Lectures [...] on the occasion of the scientific conference under the presidium of Prof. Dr. Madsen and Sir Henry Dale on the 100th anniversary of Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring's birthdays on March 16, 1954 in Frankfurt-Hoechst. (Behringwerke), Marburg-Lahn 1954, pp. 15-36
- Ways to chemotherapy for cancer. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962
- Knowing the Anthracyclinones. Goettingen 1963
Awards
- 1954 Emil Fischer Medal
- 1959 Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Brockmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- The institute for organic chemistry after 1945. In: The history of the chemical institutes of the faculty for chemistry of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Brockmann, Hans: About a method for the quantitative determination of vitamin D.
- Medicines of the 20th century - historical sketches from cod liver oil to thalidomide
- Hans Brockmann, Anneliese Busse: Crystallized vitamin D from tuna liver oil. In: The natural sciences. 26, 1938, pp. 122-123, doi: 10.1007 / BF01773018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Hans Brockmann at academictree.org, accessed on January 14, 2018.
- ↑ 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. 76.
- ^ Friedrich Klages : Introduction to organic chemistry. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1961, p. 522
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brockmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Old monastery |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1988 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |