Victor L. King
Victor Louis King ( 1886 - 1958 ) was an American chemist.
Victor L. King was a doctoral candidate for Nobel Prize winner Alfred Werner in Zurich. There he succeeded in discovering chiral complex compounds (in this case a cobalt complex). Werner had looked for this for a long time - over a decade - and he was supposedly so happy that he spoke to strangers on the street to tell them about it. That led to one of Werner's most important publications.
King received his doctorate from Werner in 1912. He was then a successful industrial chemist in the USA. He worked for Calco (later part of American Cyanamid). His main area of work was dyes and related technology. Like many of Werner's other foreign students, he no longer dealt with complex chemistry.
Fonts
- with Werner: On the knowledge of the asymmetric cobalt atom I, reports Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Volume 44, 1911, pp. 1887–1898, reprinted in GB Kauffman, Classics in Coordination Chemistry, Volume 1, Dover
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 204
- ↑ Jay Labinger, Alfred Werner's role in the mid-20th century flourishing of American Inorganic Chemistry, Chimia, Volume 68, 2014, No. 5, pp. 292-296
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | King, Victor L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | King, Victor Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1886 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1958 |