Wolfgang Walter
Wolfgang Walter (born November 19, 1919 in Hamburg ; † March 29, 2005 there ) was a German chemist .
Live and act
Wolfgang Walter was born in Hamburg as the son of the chemist Friedrich Walter . During the Second World War he was first in Norway , but was then transferred to the Eastern Front in 1944 as a first lieutenant with a company of Hitler Youths to stop the advance of the Red Army. Instead of carrying out this suicide mission, he managed to lead his unit intact into British captivity .
Walter was able to begin studying chemistry in Hamburg as early as 1946. 1953 doctorate he at Kurt Heyns on "investigations into the Monoaminomonokarbonsäuren as building blocks of proteins ," Dr. rer. nat.
In 1958 he completed his habilitation in organic chemistry in close cooperation and support with Fritz Arndt "About thion carbonamide S-oxides: Oxidation reactions in the thionamide group" and became a professor in Hamburg in 1964 . As long-standing spokesman for chemistry and president of the Jungius Society , he showed great commitment in the administrative area in addition to his research work, for which he was awarded the Jungius Medal in 1993 .
Walter is best known for his textbook on organic chemistry, which was taken over by Hans Beyer in 1971 and is well known among chemists and is now in its 25th edition .
Still entrusted with many voluntary tasks almost to the end, Walter died at the age of 86.
Honor
On July 13, 2007, a Wolf-Walter reading room was opened in the Institute for Chemistry at the University of Hamburg in the north wing of the building at Martin-Luther-King Platz 6.
Web links
- Short biography and list of publications at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walter, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2005 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |