Hans Musso

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Hans Musso (born August 17, 1925 in Camby, Dorpat district , Estonia , † July 20, 1988 in Karlsruhe ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

Musso was born in Estonia as the son of a German-Baltic lawyer. Like his cousin Robert Gernhardt , he and his family had to move to Posen in 1939 as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . After war service, wounding and longer hospital stays, he studied from 1946 to 1951 chemistry at the University of Göttingen and in 1953 when Hans Brockmann with work via the condensation of the amino acid and Peptidester doctorate . After graduation, he worked as a research assistant in Göttingen, where he was in 1957 with the signature About Orceinfarbstoffe habilitated . From 1961 to 1963 Musso followed the call as associate professor at the University of Marburg . In 1963 a visiting professorship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison followed . From 1963 to 1969 Musso was a full professor at the University of Bochum . From 1969 to 1988 he was the successor to Rudolf Criegee professor for organic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe . From the winter semester 1981/82 to the summer semester 1983 he was dean of the Faculty of Chemistry. Since 1977 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Musso had been married since 1953 and had three sons.

Scientific work

In the years 1955 to 1965, Musso investigated the structure of the lichen dyes orseille , orcein (also cudbear in English) and the litmus dyes and published about 25 articles on them. Using column chromatographic separation methods, most of the dyes could be separated and their structure determined.

Research areas Musso dealt with during his time in Marburg were investigations into hydrogen bonds , phenoxazines and the mechanism of phenol oxidation .

Since the mid-60s to Musso dealt with the Asteranen - policyclische hydrocarbons with a käfigartingen structure from cyclohexane with a fixed boat conformation derived. Another area of ​​work was investigations into metal complexes .

During his time in Karlsruhe, Musso's research activities focused on the asteranes, the dyes of the fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria ) and investigations into the hydrogenolysis of carbon-carbon bonds, especially in cyclopropane rings .

From 1951 to 1990 Musso published a total of 221 works.

Awards

In 1961 Musso was awarded the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KIT ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Henning Hopf: About Hans Musso (1925–1988) and his scientific work . In: Chemical Reports . tape 125 , no. February 2 , 1992, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19921250202 .
  3. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Hans Musso at academictree.org, accessed on January 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Hans Musso. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ H. Musso: On the knowledge of Orseille dyes, Natural Sciences, 1955, 42, 513.
  6. ↑ H. Musso: The separation of orcein into its components (II. Communication on orcein dyes), Chemical reports, 1956, 89, 1659–1673.
  7. ^ Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Prize winner chemistry. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Musso, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Camby, Dorpat County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1988
Place of death Karlsruhe