- Hans Tropsch
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name = Hans Tropsch
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caption = Hans Tropsch
birth_date = birth date|1889|10|7
birth_place = Plan,Austria-Hungary nowCzech Republic
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death_date = death date and age|1935|10|8|1889|10|7
death_place =Essen ,Germany
field =Organic chemistry
work_institution =Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research Institute for Coal Research PragueArmour Institute of Technology
alma_mater =German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague
doctoral_advisor =Hans Meyer
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known_for =Fischer-Tropsch process
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footnotes =Hans Tropsch (
October 7 1889 –October 8 1935 ) was a Czech chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of theFischer-Tropsch process .Life
Tropsch was born in Plan,
German Bohemia at that time part ofAustria-Hungary nowCzech Republic . He studied at theGerman Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague and the German Technical University in Prague from 1907 until 1913. He received his Ph.D for work withHans Meyer .Tropsch worked in a dye factory in
Mülheim in 1916-1917, then for a few months at theKaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research . From 1917 to 1920 Tropsch worked in atar distillery of the Rütgers company inNiederau , but returned to theKaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in 1920, staying until 1928. There he worked with both Franz Fischer andOtto Roelen . It was during this time that the ground-breaking inventions of theFischer-Tropsch process were patented.In 1928 Tropsch became professor at the new Institute for Coal Research in
Prague . He later accepted a position in theUnited States at the Laboratories ofUniversal Oil Products and theArmour Institute of Technology inChicago in 1931. Due to a severe illness Tropsch returned to Germany in 1935, where he died shortly after his arrival, in a hospital inEssen .References
* cite journal
title = Problems in the Chemistry of Coal
author = Hans Tropsch
journal =Chemical Reviews
volume = 6
issue = 1
pages = 63 – 90
year = 1929
url =
doi = 10.1021/cr60021a004
* cite journal
title = Sitzung am 14. Oktober 1935
author = K. A. Hofniann
journal =Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
volume = 68
issue = 11
pages = A164 – A173
year = 1935
url =
doi = cber.19350681141
doi_brokendate = 2008-06-23
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