Wolfgang Richard Roth

Wolfgang Richard Roth (born May 17, 1930 in Bonn ; † October 29, 1997 in Bochum ) was a German chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Roth studied chemistry at the University of Bonn with a diploma in 1956 and a doctorate in 1958. Kurt Alder (professor in Cologne) was the doctoral supervisor . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of Alabama until 1960 and then until 1962 at Yale University , where he worked with William von Eggers Doering on the stereochemistry of the Cope rearrangement . He completed his habilitation in Cologne in 1965. In 1967 he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin and in 1969 at Harvard University . In 1968 he received a call to Marburg and in 1969 he became a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In 1976 he was visiting professor at Princeton University .

He dealt with heat of hydrogen measurements (with a series of articles), enthalpies of formation of olefins and radicals, resonance and tension energies, diradicals, barriers to rotation of double bonds and force field calculations.

In 1985 he received the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Medal .

Web links

• Ruhr-University Bochum. Teaching and research 1969-1989, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of birth Who´s Who in Germany, Intercontinental Book and Publ. 1974, Date of death Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 51, 1998, p. 82
2. ^ Chemistry Tree