Klemperer, George

Before deciding on my graduate studies, I went to see Bill Klemperer, George Kistiakowsky, Bill Lipscomb, and E. B. Wilson, seeking their advice. Each one of them told me that there was not much to choose from outside of Harvard. But they all mentioned a former Harvard Junior Fellow, Dudley Herschbach, who was trying to set up crossed molecular-beam experiments at Berkeley. I went to Berkeley but ended up with a Harvard Ph.D. because within two years, Dudley was called back to be a full professor at Harvard. Herschbach proved to be the most influential person in my life, and I dedicated my book Angular Momentum to him. 

FIGURE 3-3 IR spectrum of A -methylacetamide in various solvents in the N—H stretching region 0.4 M at 30 G. [Unpublished spectra of William A. Klemperer and George C. Pimentel]... 

This cooperation, which was formalised in an agreement, and for which Bayer had to make annual payments, resulted in further development of drugs. Later Fischer worked together with the medical professor Georg Klemperer in Berlin. They were both interested in finding new methods to improve the chemotherapy of cancer. Klemperer worked together with different hospitals in Berlin and was a specialist in cancer diseases. 

Contract between Friedrich Bayer Co in Elberfeld / Leverkusen, Prof. Dr. Emil Fischer, Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Georg Klemperer, 28 Mar 1912, BAL. 

The careful preparations that Fischer made before his death are characteristic of him. He made his last decision, settled all important matters and, when he heard that he should have an operation because of his diseased bladder and a cancerous tumor, he took potassiumferrocyannide to end his life. He had told his old friend Georg Klemperer that he would not allow himself to be operated on, and would commit suicide if necessary. ... 

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