Otto Hönigschmid

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Otto Hönigschmid
Born	(1878-03-13)March 13, 1878 Horowitz, Austria-Hungary, today Czech Republic
Died	October 14, 1945(1945-10-14) (aged 67) Munich, Germany Suicide
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Paris, Harvard University, University of Munich
Alma mater	University of Prague
Doctoral advisor	Guido Goldschmiedt
Doctoral students	Eduard Zintl, Josef Goubeau
Known for	measurement of atomic mass

Otto Hönigschmid (March 13, 1878, Hořovice - October 14, 1945, Munich) was a Czech/Austrian chemist.

Education

Hönigschmid studied at the gymnasium in Olomouc, then at the Charles University in Prague under the guidance of Guido Goldschmiedt (the discoverer of the structure of papaverine).

Hönigschmid worked in Paris under Henri Moissan (1904–06) and at Harvard University under Theodore Richards. He was habilitated in 1908. After 1911 he was professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at the Prague Polytechnic University, and after World War I at the University of Munich. He specialised in research on carbides, silicates and measurement of atomic mass.

He committed suicide shortly after his friend and colleague at the Munich University Hans Fischer.

Heinrich Wieland (1950). "Hans Fischer und Otto Hönigschmid zum Gedächtniss". Angewandte Chemie 62 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1002/ange.19500620102.
Lothar Birckenbach (1949). "Otto Hönigschmid 1878-1945". Chemische Berichte 82 (4–5): XI–LXV. doi:10.1002/cber.19490820423.

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Persondata
Name	Honigschmid, Otto
Alternative names
Short description	Austrian chemist
Date of birth	March 13, 1878
Place of birth	Hořovice, Austria-Hungary , today Czech Republic
Date of death	October 14, 1945
Place of death	Munich, Germany

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