Otto Rosenheim

Sigmund Otto Rosenheim (born November 29, 1871 in Würzburg , † May 7, 1955 in Hampstead (London) ) was an English biochemist.

Rosenheim studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg under Emil Fischer and in Bonn and received his doctorate under Arthur Hantzsch in Würzburg. After military service he went to Carl Graebe at the University of Geneva and from there in 1894 went to William Henry Perkin junior in Manchester. In 1896 he went to the analytical research laboratory of Philip Schidrowitz in London and from 1901 he was at King's College London , where he became reader for biochemistry in 1915. From 1920 he was at the National Institute for Medical Research in Hampstead.

With Harold Dudley and Walter William Starling, he clarified the structure of spermine in 1926 . In 1926, together with TA Webster and independently of Adolf Windaus , he found that ergosterol is converted to vitamin D under sunlight and is thus a provitamin (the first to be discovered). In 1932 he and Harold King made an important contribution to the final clarification of the structure of cholesterol and bile acids , thereby correcting the structure adopted by Heinrich Wieland and Adolf Windaus.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1927 and he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London . In 1932 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

He was Max Rosenheim's uncle , Baron Rosenheim . In 1900 he became a British citizen.

literature

• Harold King, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 1956

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Rosenheim in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dudley, Rosenheim, Starling, The Chemical Constitution of Spermine, Biochem. J., Volume 20, 1926, pp. 1082-1094, PMC 1251823 (free full text)
2. ↑ Member entry of Otto Rosenheim at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 25, 2016.