Karl Miescher
Karl Miescher (born January 8, 1892 in Naples , † April 14, 1974 in Riehen ; resident in Basel ) was a Swiss chemist .
biography
After attending school in Basel, Karl Miescher studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He received his doctorate in 1918 with Hermann Staudinger , whose assistant he was, with a thesis on nitrones and nitrene . He then worked for the Basel chemical and pharmaceutical company Ciba AG until 1956 , first as a research chemist, then as head of the pharmaceutical-chemical laboratories, and finally as deputy director, director and member of the Group's management committee. He worked particularly in the field of steroids . With G. Anner in 1948 he succeeded in the second total synthesis of a steroid ( estrone ). The Wieland-Miescher ketone , which he helped to discover, bears his name . After his retirement, Miescher founded the Laboratory for Colorimetry at the Physical Institute of the University of Basel in 1957 .
In 1945 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel, in 1952 he was made an honorary senator of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau .
See also
swell
- Bernd Fritzsche: Miescher, Karl [Carlo]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Resume. In: Karl Miescher: Nitrone and Nitrene. Lehmann, Zurich 1918 ( online ).
- Peter Wieland, Karl Miescher: Helvetica Chimica Acta . Vol. 33 (1950), p. 2215.
- Website of the Karl Miescher Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Anner, Karl Miescher, Experientia, Volume 4, 1948, p. 25, Helv. Chim. Acta, Volume 31, 1948, p. 2173, Volume 32, 1949, p. 1957.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miescher, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1974 |
| Place of death | Riehen |