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Ernst Späth

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Chemist

Role
  
Chemist


Name
  
Ernst Spath

Known for
  
synthesis Mescaline

Notable students
  
Hans Tuppy

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Born
  
14 May 1886 Moravsky Beroun, Moravia (
1886-05-14
)

Nationality
  
Austro-Hungarian, Austrian

Notable awards
  
Lieben Prize (1920) Wilhelm Exner Medal (1937)

Died
  
September 30, 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

Doctoral students
  
Percy Lavon Julian

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Ernst Späth (14 May 1886, in Moravský Beroun (German: Bärn), northern Moravia – 30 September 1946, in Zurich) was an Austrian chemist, specializing in natural products.

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He was the first to synthesise mescaline and was one of the first to synthesize cuscohygrine on a small scale with Hans Tuppy.

He lost everything in World War II, and died with no money. His former student Percy Lavon Julian returned to Vienna, paid for his funeral, and commissioned a bust of Späth, which is still displayed in the foyer of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna. A second cast of the bust was erected in 1961 in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna.

Biography

  • R. Werner Sonkup (2004), Die Wissenschaftliche Welt von Gestern, Wien: Böhlau, pp. 205–216, ISBN 3-205-77303-9 

    • Publications

  • Ernst Späth (1919), "Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide. I. Anhalin und Mezcalin", Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, 40 (2): 129–154, doi:10.1007/BF01524590 

    • References

    Ernst Späth Wikipedia
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