Wilhelm Simon (chemist)
Wilhelm Simon (born September 26, 1929 in Fahrwangen , Switzerland ; † November 17, 1992 ), also called Willy Simon , was a Swiss chemist and professor at the ETH Zurich . He is the inventor of the functional principle of today's potassium-selective electrodes .
Wilhelm Simon received his diploma as an engineer-chemist in August 1953; afterwards he worked in the organic-chemical laboratory of Prof. Leopold Ružička at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, supervised by Edgar Heilbronner . He received his doctorate in 1956 and completed his habilitation in 1960. In 1967 he became associate professor , in 1970 he was given a full professorship in chemistry. Wilhelm Simon published over 450 scientific papers; he supervised 230 diploma students and 115 doctoral students. One of his main areas of work was analytical chemistry , he developed apparatus for the fully automatic determination of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. After studying ion transport through artificial membranes, he developed the modern potassium-selective electrode .
Work example
- E. Pretsch, T. Clerc, J. Seibl and W. Simon: Tables for the structure elucidation of organic compounds with spectroscopic methods. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1976.
Honors
Wilhelm Simon received many honors, including - together with Alfred Benninghoven - the Fritz Pregl Medal of the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry; the Simon Widmer Award was named after him and Michael Widmer.
literature
- Ernö Pretsch, Jean Thomas Clerc: Wilhelm Simon. 1929-1992. In: Chimia. Volume 47, 1993, pp. 25-27, digitized
- E. Pretsch, JT Clerc: Obituary. In: Analytica Chimica Acta . Volume 278, 1993, pp. 3-4, digitized
- Ernö Pretsch, Jean Thomas Clerc: Obituary. In: Journal of Automatic Chemistry . Volume 15, 1993, pp. 35-36, doi: 10.1155 / S1463924693000070 .
- In memoriam. In: Analytical Letters . Volume 26, 1993, pp. Ix-xiii, doi: 10.1080 / 00032719308017411 .
- Werner E. Morf and Ernö Pretsch: Reminiscences of Professor Wilhelm Simon and his research work at the ETH Zurich. In: Electroanalysis. Volume 7, 1995, pp. 798-800, doi: 10.1002 / elan.1140070903 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ hplc2015-geneva.org
- ↑ Wilhelm Simon: About the micro-determination of apparent dissociation constants in non-aqueous media . Of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in order to obtain the dignity of Doctor of Technical Sciences approved doctoral thesis (= PhD . No. 2590 ). Juris-Verlag, Zurich January 1956, doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-000147464 (speaker: Vladimir Prelog ; co- speaker : Edgar Heilbronner ).
- ^ Ernö Pretsch, Jean Thomas Clerc: Wilhelm Simon: 1929–1992 . In: CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry . tape 47 , no. 1-2 , Jan 1993, pp. 25-27 (obituary).
- ↑ E. Pungor: eulogy for Professor Wilhelm Simon's 60th Birthday . In: Microchimica Acta [Vienna] . tape 100 , no. 3-4 , 1990, pp. 129-130 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01244837 .
- ^ Fritz Pregl Medal. In: Awards. Österreichische Gesellschaft für Analytische Chemie / Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry ASAC, accessed on March 24, 2015 .
- ↑ H. Malissa Sr .: Homage to Willy Simon In Memoriam November 17th, 1992 . In: Microchimica Acta . tape 112 , no. 5-6 , 1994, pp. 175-178 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01242833 .
- ^ Simon-Widmer Award. In: HPLC 2015 - Geneva. 2015, accessed March 25, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fahrwangen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1992 |