Hermann Irving Schlesinger
Hermann Irving Schlesinger ( born October 11, 1882 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † October 3, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American chemist in the field of inorganic chemistry.
Life
As Schlesinger was six years old, his family moved to Chicago. There he was enrolled at the private school Schultz, a renowned and traditional -oriented education institution of the German -American community. It was not until 1896, with the entry into the high school he came in contact with the public school system of Chicago.
From 1900 to 1905 he studied chemistry at the University of Chicago and graduated with a doctorate ( Ph.D.) in Julius Stieglitz from. He spent the next two years as an assistant at the Chair of Walter Nernst at the University of Berlin, with Johannes Thiele in Strasbourg, as well as an assistant to John Jacob Abel at Johns Hopkins University. In 1907 he went to the University of Chicago back as an assistant. In 1910 he married Edna ( "Teddy" ) Simpson. In 1911 he received an assistant professorship in 1917, he became associate professor in 1922 and finally professor. At the same time, he was from 1922 to 1946 Managing Director of the Institute. Along with Herbert C. Brown in 1940, he discovered the sodium borohydride.
In addition to his research Schlesinger was an enthusiastic teacher, which is why he also taught after his retirement until his death, especially general chemistry and about 50 doctoral candidates. He died on October 3, 1960 from the effects of pneumonia, his wife Teddy had died of a heart attack in 1957.