Nozoe Tetsuo

Nozoe Tetsuo ( Japanese 野 副 鉄 男 ; born May 16, 1902 in Sendai , † April 4, 1996 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese chemist.

Life

Nozoe was already experimenting in his parents' garden shed as a child. He studied at the Imperial University of Tōhoku in Sendai and dealt with the synthesis of thyroxine under the aegis of his doctoral supervisor Majima Rikô .

Later he went to the Imperial University of Taihoku (today National University of Taiwan ) in the Japanese colony of Taiwan , where he first taught as an assistant professor and from 1937 as a full professor. In 1935 he isolated hinokitiol , the first known non-benzoid aromatic compound (it belongs to the tropolones and was obtained from cedar). When the Republic of China occupied the island of Formosa , he stayed there for three more years. In 1948 he became a professor at Tōhoku University. His chemical specialty was the seven-membered tropolones , the synthesis of which he succeeded in 1949.

Motivated by an autograph by Albert Einstein , which he received during Einstein's visit to Japan in 1922, he began to collect other autographs from natural scientists. When he first visited western countries in 1953, an IUPAC congress in Stockholm , he began collecting autographs and other written entries from international chemists. In the following 41 years he was able to collect around 4000 entries, autographs and handwritten chemical formulas in his books on 1,179 pages. The original books are now in the archives of Tōhoku University.

Private

Nozoe was married to Horiuchi Kyoko and had four children. His son Shigeo and daughter Yoko also became chemists. Two granddaughters and one grandson also studied chemistry.

plant

• Seventy Years in Organic Chemistry (= Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams). American Chemical Society, Washington DC 1990, ISBN 0-8412-1769-6
• 有機化学 . Hirokawa Shoten, Tokyo 1970 (Volume 1) and 1972 (Volume 2)
• Topics in Nonbenzenoid Aromatic Chemistry . Hirokawa Shoten, Tokyo 1974 (Volume 1) and 1977 (Volume 2)

Awards

• Asahi Prize , 1951
• Award of the Japanese Academy of Sciences , 1953
• Person of Special Cultural Merit , 1958
• Order of Culture , 1958

further reading

• Tetsuo Nozoe (1902-1996) . In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry . Vol. 2004, No. 4 , 2004, p. 899-928 , doi : 10.1002 / ejoc.200300579 .

Web links

• The Nozoe Autograph Books , digitized version of Nozoe's autograph collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} 野 副 鉄 男 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 7, 2013 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Brigitte Osterath: Another kind of autograph hunter . In: Nachrichten aus der Chemie , No. 61, 2013, pp. 637–638.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nozoe is the family name, Tetsuo the first name.