Hugo Schiff

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Hugo Schiff in Florence (ca.1905)

Hugo (Ugo) Schiff (born April 26, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 8, 1915 in Florence ) was a German-Italian chemist . He is a brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff .

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Hugo Schiff studied chemistry with Friedrich Wöhler in Göttingen . It was in 1857 with a thesis about some of naphthyl and phenyl doctorate . From 1857 to 1863 he had a teaching position at the University of Bern .

In 1863 he went to Italy, first to Pisa (1863 to 1864), where he worked on aldehydes and discovered the imines ( Schiff's bases ) named after him and the detection of aldehydes through the Schiff's sample named after him .

From 1864 to 1876 he lived in Florence, where he and Stanislao Cannizzaro founded the Gazzetta Chimica Italiana , the leading Italian chemical journal for 120 years.

In 1877 he became professor of chemistry in Turin, but returned to Florence in 1879, where he founded the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence . In 1905 he isolated the first ketene, diphenyl ketene . He also worked on amino acids and the biuret reaction . The Hugo Schiff International Store House still exists at the University of Florence today .

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literature

  • Introduzione allo studio della chimica , serie di lezioni tenute dal Prof. Schiff presso il Museo di Scienze Naturali, Edizioni Loescher, Torino 1876.
  • Prof. Hugo Schiff (ed.): Introduction to the study of chemistry . Published by Theobald Grieben, Berlin 1876.
  • Hugo Schiff (Ed.): Investigations into metal-containing aniline derivatives and the formation of aniline red . J. Springer, Berlin 1864.
  • Appunti dalle lezioni del Prof. Ugo Schiff compilati dal suo allievo Andrea Torricelli , Vol. I – II, 1897.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com accessed December 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Wenling Qin, Sha Long, Mauro Panunzio, Stefano Biondi: Schiff Bases: A Short Survey on an Evergreen Chemistry Tool. In: Molecules. 18, 2013, p. 12264, doi : 10.3390 / molecules181012264 .
  3. ^ Albert Gossauer: Structure and reactivity of biomolecules , Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, 2006, p. 295, ISBN 978-3-906390-29-1 .
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SURNAME Ship, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ship, Ugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1915
Place of death Florence