Hans Eduard Fierz
Hans Eduard Fierz ( alliance name Hans Eduard Fierz-David ; born January 5, 1882 in Riesbach , † August 25, 1953 in Zurich ) was a Swiss chemist .
Live and act
Hans Eduard Fierz attended schools in Zurich and graduated from the industrial school . He then studied chemistry at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich and received his diploma as a technical chemist in 1904 . In 1905 he was at Alfred Werner with the work to knowledge of the isomeric Campherylharnstoffe and [alpha] -Camphylharnstoff Dr. phil. PhD . He completed further training with Martin Onslow Forster at the Royal College of Science in London , worked for the Mond Nickel Co. in South Wales and in a brewery in Munich . From 1909 to 1917 he worked as a chemist at JR Geigy AG in Basel . In 1917 he was appointed to the chair for organic chemical technology at the ETH Zurich . In 1952 he retired . From 1934 to 1936 he was President of the Natural Research Society in Zurich .
In his research work, Hans Eduard Fierz dealt primarily with color chemistry, with artificial organic dyes and their starting and intermediate products, with textile chemistry and, in collaboration with Werner Jadassohn, with biochemistry . Heinrich Zollinger and Edgar Heilbronner were his students.
Hans Eduard Fierz was married to Linda David (1891–1955), daughter of Heinrich David , from 1911 and also used the alliance name Hans Eduard Fierz-David . He was a close friend of Carl Gustav Jung . The physicist Markus Fierz was one of his sons, his twin brother Heinrich Karl Fierz worked as a psychiatrist in the Binswanger Clinic in Kreuzlingen .
Fonts
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Basic operations of color chemistry. Schultheß, Zurich 1920. 2nd edition: Springer, Berlin 1922. 3rd edition 1924. New editions with Louis Blangey: 4th edition: Springer, Vienna 1938. 8th edition 1952.
English: Fundamental Processes of dye chemistry. From the German by Paul Wendell Vittum. Interscience Publishers, New York / London 1949.
Russian: Основные процессы синтеза красителей. Иностранная литература, Moscow 1957. - Travel through some industrial areas of the United States of North America. September – November 1920. Zurich 1921.
- Concerns of the Federal Institute of Technology. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. No. 1082, July 1925.
- Artificial organic colors. Springer, Berlin. Main volume 1926, supplementary volume 1935.
- The artificial silk. With the participation of H. Schuster, K. Risch. Beer & Cie, Zurich 1930.
- Aspirations and Achievements of the American Chemical Industry Over the Past Decade. Lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Leemann, Zurich 1931.
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The history of the development of chemistry. Birkhäuser, Basel 1945. 2nd edition 1952.
Polish: Historia rozwoju chemii. Naukowe, Warsaw 1958. - with Ernst Merian: Outline of the chemical technology of textile fibers. Birkhäuser, Basel 1948.
literature
- Hans Eduard Fierz-David. 1882-1953. Memorial. Zurich 1953, OCLC 610769632 .
- Hans Eduard Fierz. In: Eduard Rübel : History of the natural research society in Zurich. Fretz, Zurich 1947, p. 103f. ( online , PDF; 994 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Eduard Fierz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Fuchs: Fierz, Hans Eduard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- August Guyer : Fierz, Hans Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 142 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans Eduard Fierz in 1917 in the lecture hall for inorganic and organic chemistry (in the picture on the left, from the picture archive of ETH Zurich)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans Eduard Fierz-David on academictree.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fierz, Hans Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fierz-David, Hans Eduard (Alliance name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riesbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1953 |
| Place of death | Zurich |