Friedrich Paneth
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth FRS (31 August 1887 – 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1939. After the war, Paneth returned to Germany to become director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 1953. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere.[1]
Paneth's conception of ″chemical element″ functions as the official definition adopted by the IUPAC.[2][3][4]
Biography
Friedrich (Fritz) Paneth was born as son of the physiologist
He abandoned organic chemistry and in 1912 joined the
In 1927, Paneth and
During
A call to become director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz caused him to return to Germany. He founded the Department of Cosmochemistry there and initiated research on meteorites. He worked in the Institute until his death in 1958.
Career summary
- Assistant in Institute for Radium Research attached to Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1912
- Assistant professor, University of Hamburg, 1919
- Head of inorganic department of chemical institute, Berlin University, 1922
- Head of chemical institute, Königsberg University, 1929
- Reader in atomic chemistry, Imperial College London, 1938; among his assistants was Eugen Glueckauf
- Professor of chemistry, University of Durham, 1939
- Head of chemistry division of joint British-Canadian atomic energy team in Montreal, 1943-5
- Returned to Durham and established Londonderry Laboratory for radio-chemistry, heading it until retirement, 1953
Honours and awards
Paneth received the Lieben Prize (1916), the Liversidge Award (1936), and the Liebig Medal (1957). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947.
The mineral panethite is named after him, as is the lunar crater Paneth.
See also
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References
- JSTOR 769343.
- S2CID 170795816 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ "Philosophy of Chemistry". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2019.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Technetium – Periodic Table of Videos. YouTube.
- S2CID 43265081.
- S2CID 4071871.
- ^ U.S. Department of Energy (1989). "A Report of the Energy Research Advisory Board to the United States Department of Energy". Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy. Retrieved 25 May 2008.
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