Karl Schlögl (October 5, 1924 – May 4, 2007) was

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at the

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and secretary as well as vice-president of the

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Biography

Schlögl was born October 5, 1924, in

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. Schlögl's first contact with

happened during his middle-school education, when his father - the principal and teacher for natural sciences - took young Karl to school after hours to do experiments together. Schlögl graduated from high-school in 1943 and was declared unfit for service by the

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due to his

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. He started studying

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at the

under

Ernst Späth Ernst Späth (; 14 May 1886 in Moravský Beroun – 30 September 1946 in Zurich) was an Austrian chemist, specializing in natural products. Life Späth was the first to synthesise mescaline and was one of the first to synthesize cuscohygrine o ...

, where he completed his dissertation in 1950. From 1954 to 1955 Schlögl began working on

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s at the

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during a British council

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. After his return to the

he achieved the

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for

in 1959. In 1970 Schlögl was promoted to associate professor and in 1971 to full professor for

. Since 1974 he was director, and since 1978 chairman of th
Institute of Organic Chemistry
at the

. From 1977 through 1979 he was the first elected

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of the Faculty of Formal and Natural Sciences at the

. The

elected Schlögl as a corresponding member in 1978 and as a full member in 1982. From 1991 to 1995 Schlögl was general secretary of the academy, and from 1997 to 2000 he was vice-president of the

. Furthermore, Schlögl was a corresponding member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften as well as the

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Published works

Schlögl was one of the pioneers of the research into the geometric structure of organic compounds and the resulting mechanisms of their chemical reactions. He has been very successful with his work on new pharmaceutical substances. Schlögl authored and co-authored over 200 scientific publications and was an inventor on four patents. He supervised 51 dissertations of his

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students. Schlögl's main field of research since about 1963 was

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, and in 1970 he began to shift his focus specifically on the

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of organic compounds.

Awards

Schlögl received numerous scientific awards for his work, including the

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of the

in 1985, the prize for natural sciences of the city of

in 1989, and the

Wilhelm Exner Medal The Wilhelm Exner Medal has been awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, (ÖGV), for excellence in research and science since 1921. The medal is dedicated to Wilhelm Exner (1840–1931), former president of the Association, who initialize ...

of the Austrian Economic Association in 1991.Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.

References

External links

*
Vita Karl Schlögl, Austrian Central Library for Physics

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schlogl, Karl 1924 births 2007 deaths Organic chemists Austrian chemists Academic staff of the University of Vienna

Biography

Published works

Awards

See also

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