Friedrich Paneth

Friedrich Adolf Paneth FRS
Born(1887-08-31)31 August 1887
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died17 September 1958(1958-09-17) (aged 71)
Mainz, West Germany
Education University of Vienna (PhD 1910)
Known for
AwardsLieben Prize (1916)
Liversidge Award (1936)
Liebig Medal (1957)
Scientific career
FieldsInorganic chemistry
Institutions
Doctoral advisorZdenko Hans Skraup

Friedrich Adolf Paneth FRS (31 August 1887 – 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1939. After the war, Paneth returned to Germany to become director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 1953. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere.[1]

Paneth's conception of ″chemical element″ functions as the official definition adopted by the IUPAC.[2][3][4]

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  2. ^ Mahootian, Farzad (2013). "Paneth's epistemology of chemical elements in light of Kant's Opus postumum". Foundations of Chemistry. 15 (2): 171–184. doi:10.1007/s10698-013-9182-4. S2CID 170795816 – via ResearchGate.
  3. ^ "Philosophy of Chemistry". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2019.
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Technetium – Periodic Table of Videos. YouTube.