1. Rolf Huisgen completed his habilitation in 1947, and was appointed professor at the University of Tubingen in 1949.
11 Facts About Rolf Huisgen
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Rolf Huisgen returned to the University of Munich in 1952, succeeding Wieland, and he remained dedicated to research long after attaining emeritus status there in 1988.
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The Rolf Huisgen reaction is of paramount importance to the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, such as vitamins, alkaloids and antibiotics.
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Rolf Huisgen was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1960.
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Rolf Huisgen was a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Rolf Huisgen was an Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and the Chemical Society of Japan.
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Rolf Huisgen was awarded the Liebig Medal in 1961, the Lavoisier Medal from the Societe Chimique de France in 1965, and the Adolfo Quilico Medal from the Societa Chimica Italiana in 1987, among others.
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Rolf Huisgen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.
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Rolf Huisgen received several honorary doctorates, including from the FU Berlin in 2010.
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Rolf Huisgen's daughter, mathematician Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, was born in 1946.
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Rolf Huisgen died in Munich on 26 March 2020, aged 99.