Otto Diels

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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

Memorial plaque for Otto Diels at the entrance of the former hygiene institute in Kiel

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Diels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Life data, publications and academic family tree of Otto Paul Hermann Diels at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  2. Dissertation: On the knowledge of the cyanuric compounds
  3. Rector's speeches (HKM)
  4. Member entry of Otto Diels (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 11, 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. Member entry by Otto Diels (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  7. 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 ).