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Swiss biochemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Stoll (8 January 1887 – 13 January 1971) was a Swiss biochemist.[2]
Arthur Stoll | |
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| Born | 8 January 1887 Schinznach-Dorf, Aargau, Switzerland |
| Died | 13 January 1971 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich[citation needed] |
| Awards | Marcel Benoist Prize (1942) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich[citation needed] |
The son of a teacher and school headmaster, he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich, with a PhD in 1911, where he studied with Richard Willstätter.[3][4][5] In 1912, he became a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, with Richard Willstätter, with whom he explored important insights on the importance of chlorophyll in carbon assimilation.
In 1917, he was appointed professor of chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In the same year, he was hired as head of the pharmaceutical department of the Sandoz chemical factory in Basel. In this company, he was president from 1949 to 1956, Director from 1964 he held the office of President of the Board.
Together with Sandoz employees, he developed a range of methods for producing drugs. Thus, he developed the first isolation of ergot alkaloids (as ergotamine and ergobasine) and cardiac glycosides, which are used as a medicine for heart diseases and migraines. A continuous process for the production of soluble calcium salts was developed. He worked with Albert Hofmann.
Stoll also collected modern art, including paintings by Ferdinand Hodler.[6]
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