Hermann Irving Schlesinger

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Hermann Irving Schlesinger (born October 11, 1882 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † October 3, 1960 in Chicago , USA ) was an American chemist in the field of inorganic chemistry .

Life

When Schlesinger was six years old, his family moved to Chicago. There he started school at the Schultz private school, a renowned and traditionally oriented school facility of the German-American community. It was not until 1896, when he entered high school, that he came into contact with the public school system.

From 1900 to 1905 he studied chemistry at the University of Chicago and completed his studies with a doctorate (Ph.D.) under Julius Stieglitz . He spent the next two years as an employee at Walter Nernst's chair at the University of Berlin , with Johannes Thiele in Strasbourg and as an assistant to John Jacob Abel at Johns Hopkins University . In 1907 he returned to the University of Chicago as an assistant. In 1910 he married Edna ("Teddy") Simpson. In 1911 he received an assistant professorship, in 1917 he became an associate professor and in 1922 he became a full professor. At the same time he was the managing director of the institute from 1922 to 1946. Together with Herbert C. Brown , he discovered sodium borohydride in 1940 .

In addition to his research work, Schlesinger was an enthusiastic teacher, so that even after his retirement until his death, he mainly taught general chemistry and supervised around 50 doctoral students. He died on October 3, 1960 of complications from pneumonia; his wife Teddy had died in 1957 after a heart attack.

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SURNAME Schlesinger, Hermann Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist in the field of inorganic chemistry
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1960
Place of death Chicago