Issue in Honor of Prof. Dr. Manfred Schlosser
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Professor Manfred Schlosser A Tribute
Dedicated to Prof. Manfred Schlosser in honor of his scientific achievements within his career DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ark.5550190.p001.465 Manfred Schlosser was born on June 12, 1934 in Ludwigshafen on Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany), an industrial city whose importance increased hand in hand with chemical companies such as BASF. During the Second World War, he spent his childhood in Bavaria, while attending the Oberrealschule Schrobenhausen high school until June 1952. Between 1952 and 1957, he studied Chemistry and, to a lesser extent, medicine at the famous Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg), where he was awarded the "Diplom-Chemiker" (comparable with M.Sc.). In 1957, Manfred Schlosser started his thesis work under the supervision of Prof. Georg Wittig, and received his doctorate in May 1960, thus becoming "Doctor rerum naturarum" (comparable with Ph.D.) at the University of Heidelberg. The neo-doctor Manfred Schlosser spent one year in Brussels (Belgium) as a Research Fellow with the European Research Associates, sponsored by Union Carbide Co, before he achieved the status of "Doctor habilitus" (coupled with the conferment of the "venia legendi") at the University of Heidelberg in 1966. After his Habilitation, Manfred Schlosser accepted in 1967, the position of "Oberarzt" (Senior Physician) becoming the head of a group of scientists at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, where he initiated a program for the synthesis of novel cytostatics, while maintaining contact with the Heidelberg Faculty of Science as a "Privat-Dozent" (comparable with Assistant Professor). In October 1971, Manfred Schlosser was appointed as successor to Prof. Jiři Sicher (second chair of organic chemistry) at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) where he held regular class courses on Reaction Mechanisms, Stereochemistry, Organic Synthesis and Organometallic Reactivity. In 1983, together with Prof. Jean Tirouflet, he organized the second IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Oriented Page 1
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