Martin Onslow Forster
Sir Martin Onslow Forster (born November 8, 1872 in Lambeth , London , † May 24, 1945 in Mysore , India ) was a British chemist .
Live and act
Martin Onslow Forster attended school in Margate and then Finsbury Technical College in Finsbury , where he was trained by Raphael Meldola , among others . In 1892 he was at the University of Würzburg with Emil Fischer with the work on methyl ketol. PhD on some quinoline derivatives . He then worked with Henry Edward Armstrong at the University of London and received the Doctor of Sciences . In 1895 he went to William Augustus Tilden at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington , where he taught from 1902 to 1913 as an assistant professor.
His main field of work was technical chemistry . In 1899 he first described a synthesis of secondary amines from primary amines, which was further developed by Hermann Decker and is known under the name Forster-Decker reaction . In 1915 he discovered the Forster diazoketone synthesis for the synthesis of diazoketones, which was named after him . He then worked in the chemical industry and in professional associations. From 1915 to 1918 he was director of British Dyes Limited, from 1919 to 1920 chairman ( Prime Warden ) of the professional association Worshipful Company of Dyers and from 1918 to 1922 director of the Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry, an educational institute of the professional association Worshipful Company of Salters.
He then went to India at the invitation of Dorabji Tata and was director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore from 1922 to 1933 , where he was also responsible for administrative reform. He taught at the University of Mysore and was President of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1925. He prepared the journal Current Science , which has been published in India since 1932.
Functions
- 1908–1911, 1915–1918: Vice President of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
- 1921: President of the Chemistry Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1925: President of the Indian Science Congress Association
Awards and honors
- 1905: Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1915: Longstaff Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- To: 1933 Ritter defeated
Fonts
Martin Onslow Forster wrote over 40 papers on camphans and over 25 papers on triazoles , which were published in the Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions .
literature
- Martin Onslow Forster . In: The Shaping of Indian Science: 1914-1947. Hyderabad Universities Press, Hyderabad, India 2003, ISBN 81-7371-432-0 , pp. 174f. ( Google books ).
- Edward Frankland Armstrong, John Lionel Simonsen: Martin Onslow Forster. 1872-1945. In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5, 14, 1945, p. 243, doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1945.0015
- John Lionel Simonsen: Sir Martin Forster, FRS In: Nature. 156, July 7, 1945, pp. 13-14.
Web links
- Martin Onslow Forster on the Indian Institute of Science website
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The date of death 23 May can also be found in other sources.
- ↑ Martin Onslow Forster at academictree.org
- ↑ Entry on Forster-Decker reaction. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on June 3, 2020.
- ↑ Publications Studies in the camphane series on pubs.rsc.org
- ↑ Publications The triazo-group on pubs.rsc.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forster, Martin Onslow |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lambeth , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1945 |
| Place of death | Mysore , India |