Josef Franz Karl Huber

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Josef Franz Karl Huber (born January 1, 1925 in Salzburg ; † August 15, 2000 ) was an Austrian chemist. He is one of the developers of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

Huber served as a soldier in World War II, was wounded several times and was taken prisoner of war. From 1950 he studied chemistry at the University of Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate in 1960 and from 1958 was Erika Cremer's assistant . Even then, he was involved in chromatography. From 1960 he conducted research at the invitation of AIM Keulemans at the TU Eindhoven , where he began his research on liquid chromatography in 1963, where he had contacts with the chromatography experts Marcel JE Golay and Archer JP Martin , who worked there for a time, and from 1965 at the University of Amsterdam , at which he became assistant professor in 1969 and professor in 1972. In 1973 he was visiting professor at Northeastern University in Boston and from 1974 professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Vienna and director of the Institute for Analytical Chemistry.

In 1963 he began to improve the analytical technique of liquid chromatography by moving to ever smaller particle sizes in the columns, assuming that efficiency and throughput could be increased by at least an order of magnitude. This could be supported theoretically and experimentally and Huber soon developed efficient packing methods for the fine particles (of the order of 10 micrometers in diameter and below) in the columns, which he presented in 1969. He also developed methods for using multiple columns at the same time. His research group in Amsterdam and later in Vienna was a center of research on HPLC.

In Vienna, he advocated an East-West academic exchange early on. He founded the HPLC Conferences with Joseph Jack Kirkland and John H. Knox . He was honorary doctor in Uppsala , Lublin and Veszprém . In 1988 he received the AJP Martin Award and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art of the Austrian Republic.

In 1960 he married Josepha Lüning from Emden, with whom he had a son who became an oncologist in Vienna.

literature

  • LS Ettre, A. Zlatkis (Ed.), 75 Years of Chromatography: A Historical Dialogue, Elsevier, 1979, pp. 159ff
  • Robert Wixom, Charles W. Gehrke, Ernst Bayer (eds.): Chromatography-A Century of Discovery 1900-2000, Elsevier 2001, pp. 248f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Huber, Hulsman, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 38, 1967, p. 305, correction p. 581
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Josef Franz Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2000