Hermann Irving Schlesinger

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name = Hermann Irving Schlesinger


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birth_date = birth date|1882|10|11
birth_place = Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
death_date = death date and age|1960|10|3|1882|10|11
death_place = Chicago USA
nationality = USA
field = Chemistry
work_institutions = University of Chicago
alma_mater = University of Chicago
doctoral_advisor = Julius Stieglitz
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known_for = Boron chemistry
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prizes = Priestley Medal 1959
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Hermann Irving Schlesinger (October 11, 1882 - October 3, 1960) was an American inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry.

He and Herbert C. Brown discovered sodium borohydride in 1940 and both were involved in further development of borohydride chemistry.

Schlesinger studied chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1900 til 1905, when he received his Ph.D. for work with Julius Stieglitz.In the following two years he worked with Walther Nernst at the University of Berlin, with Johannes Thiele (chemist)
Johannes Thiele at the University of Straßburg and with
John Jacob Abel at the Johns Hopkins University

From 1907 to 1960 he taught at the University of Chicago.

External links

* [http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/OPA%20Papers/Urry-OPA.pdf Biography]
* [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4547&page=368 Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 64 (1994), 369–394.]

References

*cite journal
author= Schlesinger, H. I.; Brown, H. C.; Abraham, B.; Bond, A. C.; Davidson, N.; Finholt, A. E.; Gilbreath, J. R.; Hoekstra, H.; Horvitz, L.; Hyde, E. K.; Katz, J. J.; Knight, J.; Lad, R. A.; Mayfield, D. L.; Rapp, L.; Ritter, D. M.; Schwartz, A. M.; Sheft, I.; Tuck, L. D.; Walker, A. O.
title = New developments in the chemistry of diborane and the borohydrides. General summary
journal= Journal of the American Chemical Society
year=1953 | volume=75 | pages= 186–90|doi = 10.1021/ja01097a049