Arthur Stoll

Arthur Stoll ( born January 8, 1887 in Schinznach village; † January 13, 1971 in Dornach, SO) was a Swiss biochemist.

Life and work

The son of a teacher and school headmaster studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich, where he studied under Richard Willstätter Dr. sc.nat 1911. received his doctorate. In 1912 he became a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin with Richard Willstätter with which he explored significant insights on the importance of chlorophyll in the carbon assimilation.

In 1917 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich. In the same year he was hired as head of the pharmaceutical department in the chemical factory Basel ( now Novartis ). In this company he was from 1949 to 1956 Directorate president, from 1964 he held the office of President of the Board.

Stoll has developed a number of methods for the production of drugs, together with its employees. Thus, he succeeded in the isolation of ergot alkaloids ( ergotamine and so ergobasine ) and of cardiac glycosides, which are used as a medicine for heart diseases. Next methods have been developed for the production of soluble calcium salts.

One of its main benefits is that he was able to isolate a number of pharmacologically active substances from a " total drug" and should be so installed in specific activity and therapeutic precision deployable individual substances.

Honors

• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ( 1937 )
• Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (from 1948)
• Several honorary doctorates

Writings

• Willstätter Richard and Arthur Stoll: studies on chlorophyll: methods and results. Berlin 1913. VIII, 424 S.
• Willstätter, Richard and Arthur Stoll: On the chemical facilities of the assimilation system. Berlin. 1915th In: Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1915, II, p.322 - 346.
• Willstätter, Richard and Arthur Stoll: On the assimilation ergrünender leaves. Berlin 1915.