Walter Hieber

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Walter Otto Hieber (born December 18, 1895 in Stuttgart , † November 29, 1976 in Munich ) was a German chemist .

life and work

Hieber was born as the son of the pastor, member of the Reichstag and later Minister of Education and State President of Württemberg Johannes Hieber . After completing his doctorate in 1924 with Rudolf Weinland with the work on complex compounds of trivalent iron with hypophosphorous acid at the University of Tübingen (in Tübingen, Hieber became a member of the Normannia Association like his father ), he followed his teacher to Würzburg . After his habilitation , he became a lecturer in Heidelberg and in 1935 director of the Inorganic Chemical Institute of the Technical University of Munich . At what is now the Technical University of Munich, a lecture hall in the chemistry faculty is named after him. Since 1944 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Hieber is the founder of metal carbonyl chemistry. He discovered the so-called metal carbonyl hydrides such as H 2 Fe (CO) 4 or HMn (CO) 5 , recognized the base reaction of metal carbonyls and made decisive contributions to the synthesis of numerous metal carbonyl compounds such as Re 2 (CO) 10 .

In 1951 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize from the Society of German Chemists . Ten of his students later became professors, including Nobel Prize winners Ernst Otto Fischer and Wolfgang Beck . In 1956, Hieber was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Books

  • On complex compounds of trivalent iron with hypophosphorous acid , dissertation, Tübingen 1919
  • Knowledge of the chemical reactions of iron carbonyl , Habil.-Schrift, Würzburg 1929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Walter Otto Hieber at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Walter Hieber obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences by Ernst Otto Fischer (PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Hieber, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hieber, Walter Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1976
Place of death Munich