Wilhelm Körner

Wilhelm Körner, also known as Guglielmo Koerner ( born April 20, 1839 in Kassel, † March 29, 1925 in Milan ) was a naturalized to Italy, German chemist.

Life

In his native city of Kassel grains attended secondary school and from 1855 to 1859 the higher vocational school. First, he took courses for machine builders and engineers. In his last year at the trade school he also worked in the chemical laboratory, the Karl Georg angle plate as a successor to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen's headed. On the advice of angle plate is grains devoted entirely to the chemistry. In 1859 he moved to the University of Giessen, where he has been a PhD a year later when Heinrich Will the doctor philosophiae. By 1864 grains remained as Will's assistant in casting, after which he worked - 1865 interrupted by a six-month stay in at William Odling - in the laboratory of Friedrich Kekulé at Ghent. As Kekulé in 1867 received a professorship at the University of Bonn, also left grains Ghent to go to Palermo and there Stanislao Cannizzaro to join. It concerned itself with the study of aromatic compounds. In addition, he led his interest in botany to studies on ingredients of several vegetables. In 1870, he assumed the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the " Scuola Superiore di Agricoltura " (German Agricultural College ) in Milan. From 1875 onwards he knew also a lecturer at the Technical University of Milan where he remained until 1922 when he stepped on health grounds in retirement at the age of 83 years. In 1880 he participated in the Italian citizenship and led from 1899 to 1914, the Agricultural College as its director.

Körner's scientific focus were contributions to Kekulé benzene theory. He also published papers on pyridine, aspartic acid and quinoxaline as well as alkaloids, as obtained for example from the Angosturarinde.

Honors

Grains was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the Berlin Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (Italia ), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Royal Society. He was an honorary member of the German Chemical Society and in 1900 was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society.

Works

• La determinazione del luogo chimico nei composti cosi Detti aromatici (1868 ), Palermo
• Fatti by servire alla del determinazione luogo chimico nelle sostanze aromatiche (1869 ), Palermo: F. Lao
• Synthesis d'une base isomeric à la toluidine (1869 ), Palermo
• Studj sull'isomeria delle cosi dette sostanze aromatiche a be atomised di carbonio, comunicazione dal laboratorio di chimica organica della Regia Scuola superiore di agricoltura in Milano ( 1874), Milan: Scuola superiore di agricoltura
• Intorno a due benzobisolforici acidi ed ai loro Rapporti con altri composti (1875 ), Presentata as Polli Giovanni, Milan, Bernardoni,
• Lezioni di Chimica organica (1887 ), Milan
• Ricerche sulla composizione e costituzione della siringina, un glucoside della syringa vulgaris (1888 ), Milan
• The determination of the chemical site in the aromatic substances: four essays (1910 ), Leipzig, Engelmann
• Pubblicazioni raccolte ed ordinate in occasione del 50 ° anniversario della sua laurea (1910 ), Milan
• L' industria chimica in Italia nel cinquantennio (1861-1910) (1911 ), Rome
• Dinitroderivati ​​delle benzine metadialogenate (1913 ), Rome
• Para Nitro Aniline ortoalogenate e loro derivative (1913 ), Rome
• Benzine nitrosostituite ottenute dai corrispondenti aminoderivati ​​(1914 ), Rome
• Il quinto trinitrotoluene ε e prodotti dinitroalogeno sostituti corrispondenti (1915 ), Rome
• Analisi qualitatives: Appunti presi all Lezioni del prof. Guglielmo Koerner nel Regio Politecnico e nella Regia Scuola superiore di agricoltura di Milano nell'aa 1913-4 (1915 ), Varese
• Il sesto trinitro - toluene e prodotti dinitro- ALOGENO sostituiti corrispondenti (1916 ), Rome