Hans Molisch (6 December 1856, Brünn,

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- 8 December 1937, Wien, Austria) was a Czech- Austrian

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Molisch's test Molisch's test is a sensitive chemical test, named after Austrian botanist Hans Molisch, for the presence of carbohydrates, based on the dehydration of the carbohydrate by sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid to produce an aldehyde, which condense ...

is named after him, it is a sensitive chemical test for the presence of carbohydrates. He taught as a professor at the German University of Prague (1894-),

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(1909-1928), Tohoku Imperial University (now Tohoku University,

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; 1922–1925), and the Bose Institute in Kolkata India;1928- From 1931 to 1937 he acted as the vice-president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Hans Molisch expanded on Julius von Sachs's work by developing ´starch pictures´ in intact leaves by using actual photographic negatives as masks over the illuminated leaves.Discoveries in Photosynthesis
edited by Govindjee, J.T. Beatty, H. Gest, J.F. Allen In his function as rector of the University of Vienna in 1926/27, Molisch was responsible for a wave of radicalization among the anti-Semitic and German-national students. The escalating violence against politically dissenters in general and Jewish students in particular was promoted by Molisch and demonstrated by appropriate leniency in punishing the perpetrators. At the university he was considered an open sponsor of the "swastika people".

Literary works

* ''Die Pflanzen in ihren Beziehungen zum Eisen'', 1892 * ''Leuchtende Pflanzen'', 1904 * ''Die Purpurbakterien'', 1907 * ''Die Eisenbakterien'', 1910 * ''Mikrochemie der Pflanzen'', 1913 * ''Pflanzenphysiologie'', 1920 * ''Pflanzenphysiologie in Japan'', 1926 * ''Im Lande der aufgehenden Sonne'', 1927

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* 1856 births 1937 deaths Scientists from Brno People from the Margraviate of Moravia 19th-century Austrian botanists Academic staff of Tohoku University Austrian people of Moravian-German descent Academic staff of the University of Vienna Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Austrian botanists Botanists from Austria-Hungary {{Austria-botanist-stub