1. Since 1897 Wilhelm Traube was assistant at the Pharmakological Institute in Berlin, since 1902 assistant at the Pharmaceutical Institute and "Titularprofessor".
10 Facts About Wilhelm Traube
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Hermann Emil Fischer nominated Wilhelm Traube to be department head at the Chemical Institute of the university in Berlin.
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Wilhelm Traube was inventive and held many patents in cellulose chemistry and salts of metal complexes.
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Wilhelm Traube is well known for a procedure of synthesis of caffeine.
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Wilhelm Traube was a board member of the German Chemical Society and became in 1926 a member of the Leopoldina in Halle.
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In December 1938, Otto Hahn used an organic salt that Wilhelm Traube had constructed in order to detect barium in the products of nuclear fission.
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Wilhelm Traube was of Jewish origin but belonged to the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union.
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Wilhelm Traube's property was expropriated, and he was arrested on 11 September 1942.
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Wilhelm Traube had planned to commit suicide with cyanide before deportation, but Hahn had asked him not to do so.
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Wilhelm Traube died in prison in Berlin as a result of maltreatment.