Ruzicka, Professor

Hardegger, who had decided to make a career of teaching and research at the ETH, worked extremely hard to win an appointment at this prestigious institution and often stayed in the laboratory until 2 o clock in the morning. The following three years were spent on research related to his doctoral work, carried out in collaboration with Professors Ruzicka and P. A. Plattner. 

As Oberassistent, Hardegger supervised graduate students jointly with Professor Ruzicka. Klemens Scholz and Leo Blunschy were among his first graduate students, but Blunschy died before he could write his thesis. 

No, no. I have no talents whatsoever in the arts of talking or writing. Was Professor Ruzicka the supervisor of your thesis work ... 

Leopold Stephen Ruzicka (1887-1976) was bom in Vukovar, Croatia. Though few in his family had much formal schooling, he nonetheless decided to study chemistry and ultimately received his Ph.D. in 1910 at the University of Karlsruhe with Hermann Staudinger. He followed Staudinger to the Swiss Federal Institute (E.T.H.) in Zurich and later became professor there (1929-1957). He was the first to show that rings of more than eight carbons are possible, and he opened up the entire field of ter-pene chemistry. With Adolf Butanandt of Germany he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

SIA opens new possibilities in cell biology research. The inventor of SIA as well as of FIA, Professor Ruzicka, has recently introduced SIA for studies on cell properties by measuring responses from individual cells to stimulants [7]. 

Leopold Stephen Ruzicka (1887-1976) was the first to recognize that many organic compounds contain multiples of five carbons. A Croatian, Ruzicka attended college in Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen in 1917. He was a professor of chemistry at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and later at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. 

Brenner, Max (pp. 58,197,242, Plate 12) bom in 1915 in Chur, Switzerland. Studied chemistry at the Technical University, Zurich, Diploma Chemical Ing. in 1937, Dr. Sc. techn. after thesis with L. Ruzicka. Thereafter one year working at Rockefeller Institute in New York with Max Bergmann on synthetic substrates for proteases, 1941-1947 research in the pharmaceutical-chemical industry, 1947 assistant to T. Reichstein, 1949 Lecturer, 1954 Professor until 1980 at the University of Basel. 

In 1926 Leopold Ruzicka, on the occasion of his inaugural address as newly appointed professor of organic chemistry at the University of Utrecht, observed... 

Sesquiterpenes, C15H24, were discovered in oils of cloves, calamus, cas-carilla, patchouli and cubebs by Gladstone. They were studied particularly by F. W. Semmler, professor in Greifswald and Breslau, who also worked on fenchone, and by Ruzicka. Wallach s suggestion that they are built up from three isoprene units (1887) is true for most of them. 

Claudia Ruiz-Capillas would like to thank Dr. Leo M.L. Nollet for granting her the opportunity to be his coeditor on this book and to share his extensive knowledge on this subject. Claudia would also like to thank Professors Jaromir Ruzicka and Elo Harald Hansen, who were the first authors of a publication on FIA. Professor Ruzicka encouraged Claudia all the time and agreed to write a foreword for this book this was an honor. Thanks to F. Jimenez-Colmenero and A. M. Herrero for their advice and suggestions. 

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