Heinz GO Becker

Heinz GO Becker around 1950

Heinz Georg Osmar Becker , mostly cited as Heinz GO Becker, (born March 4, 1922 in Dittersdorf (Glashütte) , Saxony ; † July 23, 2017 ) was a German chemist ( organic chemistry , photo chemistry ). Becker studied chemistry at the TH Dresden with a doctorate in 1956 and habilitation in 1962. He was a professor at the TH Leuna-Merseburg . Since 1974 he has been a corresponding and since 1977 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

In the 1960s he dealt with triazoles (especially 4-aminotriazole) as building blocks of what he called relay syntheses of heterocycles . In the 1970s he dealt with photochemistry based on arendiazonium compounds. He was one of the founders and co-author of the popular textbook Organikum . The total circulation of the Organikum in eleven languages is 400,000 copies.

Becker promoted the scientific development of Egon Fanghänel early on (supervision of the diploma thesis) and for many years . The chemists Horst Böttcher and Hans-Joachim Timpe, who were awarded the Friedrich Wöhler Prize of the Chemical Society of the GDR in 1980, are Becker's academic students.

Fonts

with Rainer Beckert , Egon Fanghänel , Wolf D. Habicher, Hans-Joachim Knölker, Peter Metz, Klaus Schwetlick u. a .: Organikum: Organic-chemical basic internship , Wiley-VCH, 24th edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-527-33968-6 .
Editor: Introduction to Photochemistry , 2nd edition, Thieme 1983 (and Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1976).
Introduction to the electron theory of organic-chemical reactions , Berlin, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 3rd edition 1973.
New views on the concept of structure in chemistry , 1976, Akademie Verlag.

literature

Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989.
Egon Fang Hänel : 50 years of Organikum , in: Nachrichten aus der Chemie , Vol. 60, November 2012, pp. 1090-1091 ( doi: 10.1002 / nadc.201290396 ).

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Heinz Georg Osmar Becker. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 19, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Heinz GO
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Becker, Heinz Georg Osmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist (organic chemistry, photochemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dittersdorf (glassworks) , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	23rd July 2017

[1] Members of the previous academies. Heinz Georg Osmar Becker. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 19, 2015 .