Julius Stieglitz
Oscar Julius Stieglitz ( born May 26, 1867 in Hoboken, New Jersey; † January 10, 1937 ) was an American chemist.
Life
Family
His parents were Edward Stieglitz (1833-1909) and Hedwig Ann Werner (1845-1922), both of Jewish faith. Edward came from Gehaus. Hedwig had a cousin named Adolph Werner, a professor at the City College of New York was. Julius had a twin brother named Leopold, who became a physician, and a brother named Alfred Stieglitz.
Julius went to New York City in the kindergarten and learned in this city also play cello. For business reasons Edward went to Karlsruhe. Julius continued making music with the instrument continue intensively and attended the local grammar school from 1881. Subsequently, he studied chemistry at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, where he made with Ferdinand Tiemann in 1889 his doctorate degree.
On August 27, 1891 he married Anna Stieffel, who came from Constance. They had three descendants, who were all born in Chicago. Flora Elizabeth was born on 10 August 1893 but died the very next day. Hedwig, born on April 16, 1895, studied at the University of Chicago and at Rush Medical College and was active in Hammond (Indiana) in ophthalmology. Edward was born on June 6, 1899, studied at Rush Medical College, there has been an assistant professor and since 1938 medical advisor for the Department of Labor of the United States. Anna died in 1932.
On August 30, 1934 Julius married in Chicago Mary M. Rising, who came from Ainsworth (Nebraska ) and associate professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago was. Since Rising had a child adopted by his first name Katharine Menardi, this was after the wedding also Stieglitz 's last name. Anna and Mary were Protestant faith. Julius held back in religious matters, and favored the themed in Nathan the Wise idea of tolerance.
Work
His field of work was organic chemistry essentially. He provided input to chemical indicators, the relationship between color and chemical structure, and chemical equilibrium.
After his graduation he worked for a short time at the University of Göttingen under Victor Meyer. He then worked briefly at John Ulric Nef at Clark University. Two years he also worked on toxikoligischen questions at Parke -Davis (now Pfizer belonging ) in Detroit. At the University of Chicago, he was from 1892., Where he was an emeritus professor in 1905 and 1933.
Findings on the Beckmann rearrangement were among the first of his numerous publications. Under his leadership doctoral students 118.
In World War I he showed himself angrily, " what the Prussians did to Germany " and therefore supported the position of the U.S. government not only ideally, but also by research studies to sleeping pills as well as Novocain and arsphenamine. Several times he took part in conferences on ammunition issues Edgewood Arsenal.
In addition to research, he was also for many years for the American Medical Association and the United States Public Health Service operates. He was also co-editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1917 vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of the American Chemical Society. From 1917 to 1919 he was president of Sigma Xi.