Bernhard Witkop
Bernhard Witkop ( MAY 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † November 22, 2010 in Chevy Chase, MD (USA ) ) was a German - American chemist and professor of organic chemistry.
Life and work
Witkop was the son of Philipp Witkop - born and his wife Hedwig Hirsch Born in May 1917 - Professor of German Literature at the Albert- Ludwigs- University in Freiburg im Breisgau. A Council of the later Nobel Prize laureate Richard Willstätter following, he took up the study of chemistry at the LMU Munich and has already received his doctorate 23 years old with a work on the isolation and crystallization of the Amanita mushroom toxin phalloidin 1940. His doctor father was Heinrich Otto Wieland, who protectively stood in front of Bernhard Witkop, and so protect the ( in Nazi jargon ) half-Jewish chemist. Witkop remained in Munich and Weihenstephan and habilitated in 1946 at the LMU Munich. 1947 emigrated to the United States Witkop. A scholarship enabled him to research at Harvard University. There he made friends with the natural product chemist and later Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward. From 1950 worked Witkop of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., where he was from 1957 to 1987 headed the " Laboratory of Chemistry".
In his final decades of life Witkop dealt with the history and philosophy of science. Among other things, he sat down beside it apart with the work of Emil Fischer, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Theodor Wieland, Percy Julian and Muonio Kotake.
Witkop published about 370 articles in scientific journals.
Prizes and Awards (selection)
- Paul Karrer Madallie the University of Zurich (1970 )
- Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan
- Institute Scholar of the NIH, Bethesda, Md.
- Golden doctoral degree from the University of Munich ( 1990)
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)