Henry Albers

Henry Albers (born May 28, 1904 in Hamburg , † July 4, 1987 in Wiesbaden ) was a German chemist and professor.

Life

During his studies in Erlangen in 1924 he became a member of the Bubenreuth fraternity . After studying chemistry at the University of Hamburg and completing his doctorate with Paul Rabe (chemist) in 1928, Albers was a research assistant there from 1928 to 1934. In 1934 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg . He then received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and worked at the Biochemical Institute at Stockholm University. From 1935 to 1938 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TH Hannover , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1937 . In 1941 Henry Albers received a chair at the TH Danzig .

From 1950 he was visiting professor and from 1955 full professor at the University of Mainz . From 1963 to 1971 he was director of the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Mainz. Albers was a poison gas specialist and received funding from the German Research Foundation .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
• TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 41.

Web links

• Biography at the University of Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julius Andreae and Fritz Griessbach: The fraternity of Bubenreuth. 1917-1967. Erlangen 1967, p. 245.