Biography:Julius Tafel
Julius Tafel | |
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 Julius Tafel | |
| Born | 2 June 1862 Courrendlin, Switzerland |
| Died | 2 September 1918 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Known for | Tafel reaction Tafel equation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Emil Fischer |
Julius Tafel (2 June 1862 – 2 September 1918) was a Swiss chemist and electrochemist.
Work
He worked first with Hermann Emil Fischer on the field of organic chemistry, but changed to electrochemistry after his work with Wilhelm Ostwald. He is known for the discovery of an electrosynthetic rearrangement reaction of various alkylated ethyl acetoacetates to form hydrocarbons, now called the Tafel rearrangement, and the Tafel equation, which relates the rate of an electrochemical reaction to the overpotential. He is also credited for the discovery of the catalytic mechanism of hydrogen evolution (the Tafel mechanism). Tafel retired aged 48 due to ill health, but continued to write book reviews until his death.[1]
Life
Tafel suffered from insomnia and eventually had a complete nervous breakdown. He committed suicide in Munich in 1918.
References
- ↑ G., Compton, R. (2011). Understanding voltammetry. Banks, Craig E. (2nd ed.). London: Imperial College Press. pp. 47–49. ISBN 978-1848165861. OCLC 676743565.
- Julius Tafel, Hans Hahl (1907). "Vollständige Reduktion des Benzylacetessigesters". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 40 (3): 3312–3318. doi:10.1002/cber.190704003102. https://zenodo.org/record/1426235.
- Bruno Emmert; Stock (1918). "Julius Tafel". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 51 (2): 1686–1687. doi:10.1002/cber.19180510254. https://zenodo.org/record/1426645.
- K. Müller (1969). "Julius Tafel". J. Res. Inst. Catalysis, Hokkaido Univ. 17: 54–75.
- Julius Tafel (1905). "Julius Tafel". Z. Phys. Chem. 50: 668, 676, 689.
- G.T. Burstein (2005). "A Century of Tafel's Equation: 1905–2005 A Commemorative Issue of Corrosion Science". Corrosion Science 47 (12): 2858–2870. doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2005.07.002.
External links
- "Julius Tafel". Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Chemistry. http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/tafel.html.
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