Peter Hallpap

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Peter Hallpap

Peter Hallpap (born May 12, 1941 in Mühlhausen , Thuringia ; † March 22, 2020 in Jena ) was a German chemist (organic chemist ). He was best known for his work on the history of chemistry.

life and work

From 1959 to 1964 Hallpap studied chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena) with a degree in chemistry . Just a year later he graduated as a teacher of chemistry and physics. As a student of Günther Heublein he was in 1969 at the University of Jena with the work calculations bromine addition to alkenes doctorate . The doctorate B took place in 1980, the facultas docendi for organic chemistry in 1981. After the reunification, the regrouping to Dr. rer, nat. habil. in 1991.

From 1987 Hallpap worked as an associate lecturer in organic chemistry at the FSU Jena. From 1989 to its dissolution in 1990, he was acting head of the "Theory of Organic Reactions" research area in the Chemistry Section. From 1991 to 2001 Hallpap was the department head for student and academic administrative matters at the FSU Jena. At the same time, he taught the history of chemistry from 1993 at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology of the Ernst Haeckel House . He was also the scientific director of the newly emerging Center for Didactics. Hallpap has published more than 80 articles on the history of chemistry in Jena under the titles "Chemical History Notes" and "Fundstücke", including biographies and events from the turning point of 1989 for politics, the city and the FSU Jena. Between 2010 and 2017 he was a member of the board of the Chemical History Section of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh).

Selected Works

  • Peter Hallpap, Dietmar Stadermann: Stereochemistry of organic-chemical reactions , UTB for science (June 1989), ISBN 978-3437203152 .
  • Sieler Joachim Ehrenfried Butter, Peter Hallpap: Structure and Bonding-Aggregated Systems and Material Systematics , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig, 5th edition, 1987.
  • Peter Hallpap, Wolfgang Liebscher, Erika Wiesner: Nomenclature of organic compounds. Overviews and tables , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig (1978).
  • Siegfried Hauptmann , Günther Heublein, Peter Hallpap: Introduction to reaction theory - course, elucidation and control of chemical reactions , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig (1984).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Hallpap (1941-2020). Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  2. Peter Hallpap obituaries. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .