1. Julius Oscar Stieglitz was an American chemist of German Jewish origin.
11 Facts About Julius Stieglitz
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Julius Stieglitz was a teacher and organic chemist with a major interest in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
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Julius Stieglitz is known for the Stieglitz rearrangement, a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry which commonly involves the formation of imines from hydroxylamines through a carbon to nitrogen shift, comparable to the key step of a Beckmann rearrangement.
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Julius Stieglitz went to the Gymnasium in Germany and studied at the University of Berlin, where he received his PhD in chemistry in 1889 with Ferdinand Tiemann.
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In 1892 Stieglitz started working at the University of Chicago, where his whole career until his retirement took place.
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Julius Stieglitz began his career at the University of Chicago in 1892 as an unpaid docent, lecturing without salary and sustaining himself from student donations.
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Julius Stieglitz served as department chair from 1915 to 1933.
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Dr Julius Stieglitz was very active in ACS, serving as the Chicago Section Chair in 1904, and ACS President in 1917.
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Julius Stieglitz was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914 and the American Philosophical Society in 1919.
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Julius Stieglitz helped to establish the Willard Gibbs Medal, and received the Gibbs Medal himself in 1923.
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The Julius Stieglitz Lecture was established using funds dedicated in his memorial legacy in 1940.