Julius Tafel
| Julius Tafel | |
|---|---|
 Julius Tafel | |
| Born |
June 2, 1862 Courrendlin, Switzerland |
| Died |
September 2, 1918 (aged 56) Munich, German Empire Suicide |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Electrochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Munich |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Emil Fischer |
| Doctoral students | Bruno Emmert |
| Known for | Tafel reaction Tafel equation |
Julius Tafel (June 2, 1862 – September 2, 1918) was a German chemist.
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.
Life
Tafel suffered from insomnia and eventually had a complete nervous breakdown. He committed suicide in Munich in 1918.
External links
- "Julius Tafel". Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Chemistry.
References
- Julius Tafel, Hans Hahl (1907). "Vollständige Reduktion des Benzylacetessigesters". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 40 (3): 3312–3318. doi:10.1002/cber.190704003102.
- Bruno Emmert; Stock, A. (1918). "Julius Tafel". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 51 (2): 1686–1687. doi:10.1002/cber.19180510254.
- 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.
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