Alma mater University of Prague Role Chemist Doctoral advisor Guido Goldschmiedt | Name Otto Honigschmid Fields Chemistry Notable students Eduard Zintl | |
Born March 13, 1878
Horowitz, Austria-Hungary, today Czech Republic ( 1878-03-13 ) Institutions University of Paris,
Harvard University,
University of Munich Doctoral students Eduard Zintl,
Josef Goubeau Known for measurement of atomic mass Died October 14, 1945, Munich, Germany Education Charles University in Prague | ||
Otto Honigschmid (March 13, 1878, in Horovice – October 14, 1945, in Munich) was a Czech/Austrian chemist. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1913.
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Education
Honigschmid studied at the gymnasium in Olomouc, then at the Charles University in Prague under the guidance of Guido Goldschmiedt (the discoverer of the structure of papaverine).
Work
Honigschmid worked in Paris under Henri Moissan (1904–06) and at Harvard University under Theodore Richards. He was habilitated in 1908. After 1911 he was professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at the Prague Polytechnic University, and after World War I at the University of Munich. He specialised in research on carbides, silicates and measurement of atomic mass.
Death
He committed suicide shortly after his friend and colleague at the Munich University Hans Fischer.