Roland Scholl
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Prof. Dr. phil. Roland Heinrich Scholl |
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30 September 1865 Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Died | 22 August 1945 (aged 79) Mörtitz, Saxony, Allied-occupied Germany |
| Cause of death | Injuries sustained in the Allied bombing of Dresden |
| Education | A Gymnasium in Zurich |
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University of Würzburg, Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum |
| Occupation | Chemist |
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| Known for | Coronene, Bally-Scholl synthesis |
| Relatives | Johannes Wislicenus (uncle) |
| Awards | Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (1944) |
Roland Heinrich Scholl (30 September 1865 – 22 August 1945) was a Swiss chemist who taught at various European universities. Among his most notable achievements are the synthesis of coronene, the co-development of the Bally-Scholl synthesis, and various discoveries about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Roland Heinrich Scholl was born on 30 September 1865 in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of a Badensian merchant. After primary education by a private teacher and secondary education at a Gymnasium in Zurich, he studied chemistry and physics at the University of Würzburg in 1883. One of his teachers there was Johannes Wislicenus, his mother's brother. After military service in a Bavarian regiment, he continued his studies in 1885 at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in Zurich. In 1890 he received a Dr. phil. degree from the University of Basel.
In 1893, Roland Scholl became Privatdozent in chemistry at the Polytechnikum as well as at the University of Zurich. In 1897, he became the assistant director of the chemical laboratory of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). After being promoted to associate professor in 1904, he moved to the University of Graz, where he became full professor in 1907. In 1914, Scholl volunteered for service in World War I, and after the end of his service he moved to the Technische Universität Dresden, where he worked as the director of the institute for organic chemistry until his retirement in 1934.
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