Oskar Baudisch
Oskar Baudisch ( born June 3, 1881 in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, † March 29, 1950 in La Jolla ) was a biochemist and radiation researchers.
Life
A graduate of the State Trade School in Reichenberg in northern Bohemia, Oskar Baudisch studied at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Zurich to the doctor of philosophy. After completing his one-year military service in the Austria -Hungarian army, he was in Reichenberg with his former chemistry teacher F. Breindl the investigation " oxidation of proteins by hydrogen peroxide " out and became a private assistant to Eugen Bamberger at the Technical University ( Polytechnic ) in Zurich. In the fall of 1907 Oskar Baudisch moved to the University of Manchester in England. From the William Henry Perkin- laboratory derived his famous work in analytical chemistry over the cupferron. In 1911, Oskar Baudisch assistant to Alfred Werner in Zurich, a scientific center for the study of chemistry and physics and habilitated in the field of chemistry, has been a lecturer and also studied medicine. At the beginning of 1914 as the Director of the Radiation Research Institute in Hamburg, surprised him the First World War.
During World War II, Oskar Baudisch was as a medical officer in disease control in the Austria -Hungarian Army. In 1920, he received a call from Yale University in New Haven, USA, where he taught as a professor photochemistry two years. For the study of sulfur sources, he works in Stockholm with Hans von Euler - Chelpin. In 1933 he accepted an invitation of the later U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create a research institute for chemistry in Saratoga Springs in La Jolla in Southern California and to conduct the Institute Ozeanographiesche. During this stay he came to La Jolla probably in a boating accident for his life.
Family
Oskar Baudisch was a son of the couple, Josef Baudisch (1851-1924), director of carpet weaving Ignaz Ginzkey in Maffersdorf at Reichenberg in northern Bohemia, and Julie, born Ginzkey. He had four siblings, sister Josefine Baudisch, (* 1878, † June 18, 1963 ), manager of the Jung- Baudisch funds for scholarships to needy youth, and Ida, who married young and died at the age of 21, and the Baudisch brother Rudolf (1896-1940), head of the Garnabteilung in the company Ignaz Ginzkey in Maffersdorf and William died before the birth of Rudolf Baudisch.