Oskar Piloty
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| Oskar Piloty | |
| Born | April 30, 1866 Munich, Germany |
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| Died | October 6, 1915 (aged 49) Sommepy, France |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Institutions | University of Berlin, University of Munich |
| Alma mater | University of Würzburg |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Emil Fischer |
| Doctoral students | Wilhelm Schlenk |
Oskar Piloty (30 April 1866 – 6 October 1915) was the German chemist .
[edit] Life
Oskar Piloty was born as son of the painter Karl von Piloty in munich. Due to the close contact of the Piloty family to the chemist Ludwig Knorr, who later married as sister of Oskar Piloty, he started studying chemisty at the Baeyer laboratory of the University of Munich in 1888. After failing an exame of Adolf von Baeyer in 1889 he changed to the University of Würzburg. He and his collegues speculated that he failed because he fell in love with the doughter of Baeyer, Piloty married her in 1892.
At the University of Würzburg he worked with Emil Fischer on the chemistry of sugars. He received his Ph.D in 1890. In 1892 he followed Emil Fischer to the University of Berlin. In 1900 his father in law offered him a position at the University of Munich and although he had a better offer from Emil Fischer he accepted. He worked on the structure of natural products for example that of hemoglobine.
Although he was to old to be drafted for the World War I but he fought at the west front and was killed during a fight at the Second Battle of Champagne in 1915 near Sommepy.
[edit] References
- Carl Harries (1920). "Obituary: Oskar Piloty". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 53 (9): A153 – A168. doi:.
