Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Berlin

Germany and received a Ph.D. from Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin. In 1933, he left Germany for England because Hitler had come to power. He studied at Cambridge, and in 1935 Florey invited him to Oxford. In 1948, he became the director of an institute in Rome, but he returned to England in 1961 to become a professor at the University of London. 

Fig. 1.3. Festivities celebrating the 100th anniversary of Berlin s Friedrich Wilhelm University on 11 October 1910.

Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Eucken, met similar resistance. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Defense wanted application-oriented, military research to continue at the Institute until an appropriate military institute could be established. Hence, as far as the two Ministries were concerned, Thiessen was a far more suitable Director than the lauded scientists proposed by the KWG. While this debate unfolded between the ministries and the KWG, Thiessen was promoted to an academic post adequate for a KWG director. After he had failed to find a position in Freiburg or Frankfurt, Thiessen was offered the post of Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemistry Institute at Munster in March of 1935, succeeding Rudolf Schenck. Though his appointment was confirmed by the Ministry of Education on 1 April 1935, Thiessen never occupied the post. On 20 May 1935 the Ministry of Education named Thiessen Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, as well as Professor for Physical Chemistry at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In the minutes of the Institute s board meeting a month later, Planck noted that the naming of the new Institute Director had come about in an unusual manner nevertheless, he accepted the political imposition and expressed his desire to work together with Thiessen. 

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) studied under Bunson and Kekuld at the University of Heidelberg and Hofmann at the University of Berlin (from which he received the doctorate). Victor Villiger was von Baeyer s student. As an interesting footnote, although this work was first published in 1899, it received little attention presumably because suitable peracids were not widely available. Baeyer, A. Villiger, V. Chem. Ber., 1899, 32, 3625. A review has appeared see Krow, G. R. Org. React.,1992., 43,25Ut... 

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1903-1995) was born in Germany. He shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry (withRuzicka seep. 14 for isolating and determining me structures of estrone, androsterone, and progesterone. Forced by the Nazi government to refuse the prize, he accepted it after World War II. He was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and later was a professor at the Universities of Tubingen and Munich. 

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