Heinrich Hock (chemist)
Heinrich Hock (born April 9, 1887 in Großostheim ; † October 28, 1971 ) was a German chemist and fuel technician .
life and work
Hock studied chemistry and received his doctorate in Munich in 1912 under Karl Andreas Hofmann . He taught from 1927 to 1958 as a professor at the Institute of Coal Chemistry , later Fuel Chemistry and Fuel Technology at the mountain academy Clausthal .
The Hock synthesis of phenol and acetone from cumene , which he developed in 1944, is named after him .
Honors
- 1956: Liebig commemorative coin of the Society of German Chemists
- 1961: Carl Engler Medal from the German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal
- 1964: Large Federal Cross of Merit
literature
- German Society for Mineral Oil Science and Coal Chemistry: Petroleum & Coal, Natural Gas, Petrochemical, Volume 25, Industrieverlag von Hernhaussen KG., 1972
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Hock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical note (in English) (PDF file; 551 kB)
- Scientific career (PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Hock, S. Lang: Chem. Ber. 1944, 77B, 257.
- ↑ DGMK: Carl Engler Medal 1961 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 91 kB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hock, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großostheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1971 |