Randolph Riemschneider

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Randolph Riemschneider , also Randolf Riemschneider (born November 17, 1920 in Hamburg ) is a German chemist ( organic chemistry , biochemistry ).

Riemschneider studied chemistry in Göttingen, Hamburg and Leipzig and was a soldier after graduating in 1941. In 1943/44 he worked in the industry producing synthetic gasoline and at the same time was working on his dissertation. In 1945 he received his doctorate in Jena with a thesis on synthetic lubricants from hydrogenation and completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1946. In 1945 he developed a new, very effective contact insecticide from the diene group, M 410 (OET, octachloro-endomethylene-tetrahydrohydric). Immediately after World War II, he wrote popular science books and an English textbook. From 1947 to 1949 he was at Lohmann's Institute in Berlin. He also held lectures as a university lecturer at the Humboldt University in East Berlin (1948/49) and from 1950 at the Free University of Berlin, where he became an adjunct professor and in 1958 associate professor and director of the Institute for Biochemistry. In 1957 he was a visiting scientist in the USA. In 1966 he became a full professor and in 1987 he retired. In addition to his academic career, he worked as a consultant in industry.

1962 to 1973 he also set up the chemical institute at the University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and was its director. In 1973 he received an honorary doctorate from the UFSM and in 1974 he received an honorary professorship there. He also worked with industry and research institutes in Japan, Brazil, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Switzerland. In 1979 he received the Pola Prize from the Japanese Chemical Society.

In 1949 he described the Riemschneider reaction ( thiocarbamates from thiocyanates ). In addition to insecticides, he dealt with food additives for animals, organic extracts, synthetic lubricants, organic manganese compounds (also as anti-knock agents with lead substitute), aphrodisiacs and stereochemistry.

He has published over 1000 scientific papers and holds 50 patents.

Fonts

  • On the knowledge of contact insecticides, 3 volumes, Berlin: Saenger, 1947, 1949, 1951
  • Everyday English according to the verb system, 1948
  • Earth without a moon, 1948
  • The largest power plant on earth is the earth itself, 1948
  • Sunspot Mystery, 1949
  • Basic biochemical internship, 1949
  • 75 years chemistry: Nachlese / 75 years chemistry: re-reading, Bibliotheque World Wide, 5 volumes (volume 5 in two sub-volumes), 2011 to 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1945 based on the biography at BWW (Bibliotheque World Wide), see web links, based on the Kürschner Scholar Calendar 1943.
  2. ↑ BWW. After Kürschner 1947
  3. ↑ BWW by furriers from 1949
  4. ↑ Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009
personal data
SURNAME Riemschneider, Randolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemschneider, Randolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist (organic chemistry, biochemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg