Otto Diels
Otto Paul Hermann Diels (born January 23, 1876 in Hamburg , † March 7, 1954 in Kiel ) was a German chemist . With his student Kurt Alder , he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for the discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction .
Life
Diels attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium and studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with Emil Fischer . He graduated in 1899, and his doctorate at Emil Fischer to Dr. phil. He received a 1915 Extraordinariat and already changed a year later as professor at the University of Kiel . In 1925/26 he was its rector . Until 1945 he headed the Institute for Chemistry. His areas of work were the constitution of steroids , dehydration reactions with selenium , α-di ketones , urethanes and carbon suboxide .
Honors
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1922)
- Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (since 1928)
- Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1935)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1950)
- Federal Cross of Merit (1952)
- Otto Diels Institute for Organic Chemistry in Kiel with a bronze plaque in the entrance area (2005)
- Dielsweg in Düsternbrook
- Chemical Breakthrough Award 2011 from the American Chemical Society , scs.illinois.edu
literature
- Heinrich Wieland : Diels, Otto Paul Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 647 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Diels in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1950 award ceremony for Otto Diels (English) and a banquet speech (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Otto Paul Hermann Diels at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
- ↑ Dissertation: On the knowledge of the cyanuric compounds
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
- ↑ Member entry of Otto Diels (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 11, 2017.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 68.
- ↑ Member entry by Otto Diels (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Dielsweg. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Diels, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diels, Otto Paul Hermann (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1950) |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1954 |
Place of death | Kiel |