Wolfgang Lüttke

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Wolfgang Lüttke (born November 20, 1919 in Cologne , † October 20, 2018 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist and university professor.

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Wolfgang Lüttke was born on November 20 as the son of Georg Walter Lüttke and Gertrud Lüttke (born March 5, 1893, † February 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp, daughter of Robert Curjel ) in Cologne. He had a younger brother Thomas Arnold, grew up in Berlin and began studying chemistry in Freiburg in 1941 . In 1944 he received his diploma and received his doctorate in 1949 at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg under Reinhard Mecke with ultrared investigations on the association of some phenols . He completed his habilitation there in 1956 in physical chemistry through spectroscopic studies of nitroso compounds . As early as 1960 he followed a call to an associate professor for organic chemistry at the University of Göttingen . He turned down a call to RWTH Aachen University in 1961 and was instead appointed full professor of organic chemistry in Göttingen. In 1965 he refused the offer to succeed his doctoral supervisor Reinhard Mencke in Freiburg, which the Göttingen chemistry students honored with a torchlight procession. 1967 - 1968 Lüttke was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Göttingen. From 1972 to 1980 he was managing director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry. His students include Armin de Meijere and Martin Klessinger . In 1987 he retired, his successor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry in 1989 was Armin de Meijere.

Scientific work

Wolfgang Lüttke researched the electronic properties of mono- and dimeric C and N-nitroso compounds and the chromophore system of the indigo . He designed the concept of the original indigo and, based on this, developed syntheses for its sulfur, selenium and nitrogen derivatives. He also carried out studies on phenazine dyes and synthesized novel laser dyes .

Awards

Lüttke received the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in 1959 and has been a full member of the mathematical-physical class of the academy there since 1972. Since 1987 he has been an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Science Society in Trondheim.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Armin de Meijere: Wolfgang Lüttke (1919–2018) . In: News from chemistry . tape 64 , April 2019, p. 72 .
  2. ^ Prize winner chemistry: Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (AdW). In: adw-goe.de. February 11, 2019, accessed March 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lüttke, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2018
Place of death Goettingen