Carl Schorlemmer

Carl Schorlemmer ( born September 30, 1834 in Darmstadt, † June 27, 1892 in Manchester ) was a German chemist.

Life

He was the eldest son of the carpenter John Schorlemmer and his wife Katharine Philippine Schorlemmer. He went through after a short stay, the four-year primary school secondary school. Between 1850 and 1853 he attended the Higher Commercial School in Darmstadt. He completed The following 2 ½ years in wholesale Umstadt a lesson in the Lindenborn 's pharmacy. After passing the exam assistants he took a job in the Swan Pharmacy in Heidelberg.

In Heidelberg he had the opportunity to attend lectures by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. This impressed him so much that he decided to devote himself entirely to chemistry. He studied for a semester in 1859 in Giessen. In the autumn of the same year he took a post as assistant professor Private Roscoe in Manchester. Two years later he became the teaching assistant.

From 1862 he devoted himself to intensive studies on alcohol radicals and hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series. He proved that the hydrides of the alcohols and the then -conceived as radicals of the alcohol hydrocarbons constitute the same. The case coming mainly apply halogenation of hydrocarbons led him to the discovery of new isomerism between different halides of hydrocarbons and related alcohols, and their mutual transformations and to explaining its constitution. With the exception of methane and butane Schorlemmer has studied the whole series of normal paraffins to octane and its derivatives and discovered among other things, normal pentane, heptane and diisopropyl.

Schorlemmer was since 1874 Professor of Organic Chemistry in Manchester. He was a member of the Philosophical Society in 1870, the Royal Society since 1871 and the American Philosophical Society from 1878. Schorlemmer was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a close friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who he advised on scientific issues since 1889. His specialty was the simple hydrocarbons, which he classified under one unified theoretical point of view and from whom he could pose some purely first time. He is characterized as a pioneer of petrochemistry.

Honors

  • At Owens College ( Oxford Street in Manchester ) the Schorlemmer Memorial Laboratory was founded in 1895, which was the first in England dealt with in organic chemistry.
  • The Technical University Leuna - Merseburg wore from 1964 until its dissolution the name Carl Schorlemmer. A monument of the scientist is to find the fire water pond of the campus of the University of Merseburg today.
  • In Halle / Saale, a street is named ( Carl Schorlemmer -ring) after him. Also in Merseburg there is a Carl Schorlemmer Street.

Writings (selection )

  • H. E. Roscoe: Short textbook of chemistry. According to the latest views of science. With numerous imprinted in the woodcuts in the text. German edition with the participation of the author edited by Carl Schorlemmer. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1867
  • HE Roscoe and C. Schorlemmer: Short Textbook of Chemistry: according to the latest views of science. - Dt. Ed / Edit. Carl Schorlemmer. 2, according to the latest research verm and verb. Ed - Vieweg, Braunschweig 1868 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • HE Roscoe and C. Schorlemmer: Short textbook of chemistry - according to the latest views of science. 2nd edition, Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1869
  • HE Roscoe: The spectral analysis in a series of six lectures with scientific supplements. Authorized German edition, edited by Carl Schorlemmer. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1870 online
  • Textbook of carbon or compounds of organic chemistry. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1871
  • HE Roscoe, C Schorlemmer: Detailed chemistry textbook. Vol 1 Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1873
  • HE Roscoe: Short textbook of chemistry according to the latest views of science. With numerous imprinted in the text wood engravings and a colored spectral table. German edition, with the participation of the author edited by Carl Schorlemmer. 4, according to the latest research verm and verb. Ed Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1873
  • Manual of the Chemistry of Carbon Compounds, or Organic Chemistry. London 1874
  • Textbook of carbon or compounds of organic chemistry. 2 verb. Ed Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1874
  • H. E. Roscoe: Short textbook of chemistry. According to the latest views of science. With numerous imprinted in the woodcuts in the text. German edition with the participation of the author edited by Carl Schorlemmer. 5 verb. Ed Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1875
  • H. E. Roscoe; C. Schorlemmer: A Treatise on Chemistry. Vol 1-3, London, New York 1877-1892
  • H. E. Roscoe; C. Schorlemmer: A Treatise on Chemistry. 2nd ed London, New York 1878
  • H. E. Roscoe; C. Schorlemmer: Detailed chemistry textbook. 4 vols Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1877-1889
  • H. E. Roscoe: Short textbook of chemistry. According to the latest views of science. With numerous imprinted in the woodcuts in the text. German edition with the participation of the author edited by Carl Schorlemmer. 6 verb. Ed Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1878
  • The rise and development of organic chemistry. Manchester and London, 1879
  • HE Roscoe and Carl Schorlemmer: Short textbook of chemistry according to the latest views of science. 7 verb. Ed Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1882
  • Origine et Développement de la Chimie organique. Ouvrage traduit de l' anglais avec de l' auteur Authorization par Alexandre Clapéde. Paris 1885
  • Textbook of carbon or compounds of organic chemistry. Braunschweig 1886
  • The origin and development of the organic chemistry. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1889
  • Carl Schorlemmer: origin and development of organic chemistry. ( Ostwald classics of the exact sciences, vol 259), Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1984
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