Hans Schmid (chemist)
Hans Eduard Schmid (born March 24, 1917 in Gränichen ; † December 19, 1976 in Schwerzenbach ) was a Swiss chemist ( organic chemistry ).
Live and act
Schmid moved with his parents to Vienna in 1926, where his father worked as a technical director at Bally . From 1935 he studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1939 and received his doctorate in 1941 with Ernst Späth with a dissertation on coumarins . The following year he went to the University of Zurich as assistant to Paul Karrer . There he completed his habilitation in 1944 and was appointed associate professor in 1947. In 1949 he completed a study visit with Melvin Calvin at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1956 to 1958 Schmid was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences. In 1959 he was appointed full professor and director of the Organic Chemistry Institute at the University of Zurich as the successor to Paul Karrer.
He was mainly concerned with the elucidation of the structure of natural substances from plants and insects, for example curare alkaloids such as toxiferin . He also dealt with reaction mechanisms ( e.g. Claisen rearrangement , sigmatropic rearrangement ), photochemistry and the construction of new ring systems.
In 1961 Hans Schmid was awarded the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London , UK. In 1968 Schmid became a member of the Leopoldina . He was President of the Comité Suisse de la Chimie (CSC) in 1972 and President of the Swiss Chemical Society from 1970 to 1972 . In 1974 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Friborg .
literature
- Otto Isler: Hans Schmid 1917–1976. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . Vol. 156, Part. 1, p. 131 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Jürgen Hansen, Manfred Hess, Wolfgang von Philipsborn: Hans Schmid March 24, 1917– December 19, 1976. In: Helvetica Chimica Acta . Vol. 61 (1978), H. 1, pp. 1-29, DOI: 10.1002 / hlca.19780610102 .
- Hans-Jürgen Hansen: Schmid, Hans Eduard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Hans Schmid at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 26, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmid, Hans Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graenichen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1976 |
| Place of death | Schwerzenbach |