Oskar Polansky

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Oskar Engelbert Polansky (born March 28, 1919 in Vienna ; † January 15, 1989 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was an Austrian chemist ( theoretical chemistry , organic chemistry, radiation chemistry).

Life

Polansky studied chemistry from 1947 at the University of Vienna with a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1957 under Friedrich Wessely (On the effect of organometallic compounds on quinols and acylated acyloins), whose assistant he was then. As a post-doctoral student he was with Charles Coulson in Oxford in 1957/58 . In 1963 he completed his habilitation in theoretical chemistry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (on the stereochemistry of conjugated systems). In 1965 he became associate professor for Theoretical Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna and in 1967 Professor and Director of the newly established Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, which he remained until 1973. After becoming a "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society from 1968 , in 1970 he became director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr and head of the Radiation Chemistry department and from 1973 director of the Institute for Radiation Chemistry. He also became honorary professor at the University of Dortmund in 1973 . 1981 to 1987 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Mülheim. From 1984 he was honorary professor at the University of Vienna. In 1987 he retired.

From 1975 he was editor of Communications in mathematical chemistry (MATCH). In 1966 he received the Kuschenitz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1979 the Medal of Honor from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

He dealt with organic Lewis acids , the structure and electronic configuration of organic molecules (quantum chemistry) and topological effects on molecular orbitals.

Peter Schuster (with Friedrich Wessely) is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • with Ivan Gutman: Mathematical concepts in organic chemistry , Springer 1986

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