Carl Johann Philipp Noé Richard Anschütz (10 March 1852 – 8 January 1937) was a German organic chemist.
[Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002]
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Anschütz received his PhD at the
University of Bonn
The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...
for his work with
August Kekulé
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( , ; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially ...
. He became Kekulé's assistant and in 1898, his successor as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bonn. His biography of Kekulé opened a view on the claims of
Archibald Scott Couper
Archibald Scott Couper (; 31 March 1831 – 11 March 1892) was a Scottish chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules ...
as an independent co-discoverer of the ability of carbon atoms to link to each other to form chains (the theory of chemical structure).
References
Further reading
*Richard Anschütz, ''August Kekulé'', 2 volumes (Berlin: Verlag Chemie, 1929)
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1852 births
1937 deaths
20th-century German chemists
University of Bonn alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
19th-century German chemists
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