Otto Hönigschmid

Otto Hönigschmid
Born	(1878-03-13)March 13, 1878 Horowitz, Austria-Hungary, today Czech Republic
Died	Munich, Germany Suicide
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Paris, Harvard University, University of Munich
Alma mater	University of Prague
Doctoral advisor	Guido Goldschmiedt
Doctoral students	Eduard Zintl, Josef Goubeau
Known for	measurement of atomic mass

Otto Hönigschmid (March 13, 1878, in Hořovice – October 14, 1945, in Munich) was a Czech/Austrian chemist. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1913.

Education

Hönigschmid 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

Hönigschmid 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.

External links

• Contains short biography of Hönigschmid (in Czech)