Hans H. Günthard

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Hans Heinrich Günthard (born November 19, 1916 in Hirzel ; † February 2, 2006 in Küsnacht ) was a Swiss chemist and professor at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Hans Heinrich Günthard completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and studied chemistry at the Technikum Winterthur . 1938-1943 he worked in the industry and continued his studies in 1943 of chemistry and physics at ETH Zurich continued where he 1948/9 at Placidus Plattner Andreas with the work over X-ray and spectroscopic studies of azulenes doctorate was. In 1952 he became a private lecturer at the Institute for Organic Chemistry, in 1954 Associate Professor and in 1958 Full Professor of Physical Chemistry. In 1982 he retired.

After the Second World War he set up a modern laboratory for physical chemistry at ETH Zurich and headed it until 1982. Among other things, he dealt with infrared, Raman and microwave spectroscopy of organic molecules and his group made important contributions to the development of instruments with high resolution Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), electron spin resonance spectroscopy ( ESR) and electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR). Further research areas were the spectroscopy of organometallic complexes and ions of transition metals substituted in single crystals, of radicals in noble gas matrices, infrared hole burning of molecules isolated in matrices, conformational analysis by matrix IR spectroscopy and high-resolution microwave spectroscopy of supersonic molecular beams. In addition, he dealt with group theory for non-rigid molecules and their application to the rotational spectra, with the theory of vibrational spectra of chain molecules, the theory of ESR and ENDOR spectroscopy, quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics of molecules isolated in a matrix and their photoconversion, and with the quantum chemistry of the conformational stability of nucleic acids.

He was the author and co-author of around 400 research papers. In 1977 he received the Marcel Benoist Prize .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Hans H. Günthard at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Günthard, Hans H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günthard, Hans Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist and university professor at ETH Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirzel
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2006
Place of death Küsnacht