Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Otto Wieland
Heinrich Otto Wieland
Born(1877-06-04)4 June 1877
Died5 August 1957(1957-08-05) (aged 80)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Munich
Known forAdamsite
Bile acids research
Barbier–Wieland degradation
Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde
Wieland rearrangement
Wieland test
AwardsOtto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics (1955)
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1952)
Goethe Medal (1942)
ForMemRS (1931)[1]
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1927)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsTechnical University of Munich 1913–1921,
University of Freiburg 1921–25,
University of Munich 1925–
Doctoral advisorJohannes Thiele[citation needed]
Doctoral studentsRolf Huisgen,
Leopold Horner

Heinrich Otto Wieland (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈviːlant] ; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Karrer, P. (1958). "Heinrich Wieland 1877-1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4: 341–352. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1958.0026. S2CID 72627789.
  2. ^ Bernhard Witkop (1993). "Remembering Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957) portrait of an organic chemist and founder of modern biochemistry". Medicinal Research Reviews. 12 (3): 195–274. doi:10.1002/med.2610120303. PMID 1578969. S2CID 32468158.