Paul Ruggli

Paul Emil Ruggli (born February 26, 1884 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † September 4, 1945 in Basel ) was a Swiss chemist .

Life

His parents were entitled to live in Hauptwil in Thurgau . His father worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Montevideo. After his premature death, his mother moved with him first to Zurich , then to Wiesbaden , where he graduated from high school in 1903. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1908 in Leipzig under Arthur Hantzsch with a thesis on the constitution of trithiocyanuric acid and thiooxanilides. After a short stay in Argentina, he was assistant to Richard Willstätter at the University of Zurich and from 1913 to Johannes Thiele at the University of Strasbourg . There he received his habilitation in 1913.

In 1919 he came to the University of Basel , where he took over the management of the laboratory for dyeing and fabric printing and gave lectures. In May 1922 he became an associate professor with a teaching position for dye chemistry , dyeing, fabric printing and related areas. In 1937 (or 1932 or 1936) he succeeded Hans Rupe as full professor and head of the Institute for Organic Chemistry . In this role he dealt with the synthesis of new dyes and heterocyclic compounds . In 1939 he was dean of the mathematics and science faculty.

Ruggli was married from 1913 and had one son.

plant

The Ziegler-Ruggli dilution principle is named after Ruggli . This is a principle of closing large rings, which he discovered in 1912 and developed from 1933 together with Karl Ziegler at the University of Basel.

literature

HR: Paul Ruggli, 26. II. 1884-4. IX. 1945. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society. 125 (1945), pp. 373-375 ( online ).
Hans Rupé: Paul Ruggli, 1884–1945. In: Helvetica Chimica Acta. Vol. 29 (1946), pp. 96-811 ( doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19460290405 ).
Christoph Tamm: Ruggli, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 239 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Hermann Wichers : Ruggli, Paul Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ s. Leipzig University Archives, Sign .: Phil.Fak. B 130.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d H. R .: Paul Ruggli, 26. II. 1884–4. IX. 1945. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society. 125 (1945), pp. 373-375 ( online ).

↑ The Beginnings of Chemistry at the University of Basel , 550 Years of the University of Basel, University of Basel website, accessed on October 30, 2011.

↑ September 4, 1945 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Basler Chronik, website of the Basler Stadtbuch, accessed on October 30, 2011.@1@ 2

^ Chemistry at the University of Basel , website of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Basel, accessed on October 30, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Ruggli, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ruggli, Paul Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH	September 4, 1945
Place of death	Basel

[1] s. Leipzig University Archives, Sign .: Phil.Fak. B 130.

[vsng-2] H. R .: Paul Ruggli, 26. II. 1884–4. IX. 1945. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society. 125 (1945), pp. 373-375 ( online ).

[3] The Beginnings of Chemistry at the University of Basel , 550 Years of the University of Basel, University of Basel website, accessed on October 30, 2011.