Rainer Philippson
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Rainer Philippson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | German |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | |
Rainer Philippson was a German organic chemist. He is known for inventing and patenting the synthesis of clocortolone with Emanuel Kaspar in 1973.[1] The original assignee of the patent was Schering AG. Philippson held a PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked as a researcher at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (in East Berlin) in the 1950s and 1960s.[2] In the 1960s, he defected to West Germany and joined Schering AG as a researcher. Philippson was also a co-inventor of several other patents held by Schering.
References
- ^ Process for the preparation of 9alpha-chloro-11beta-hydroxy steroids, retrieved 2015-12-07
- ^ Tätigkeitsbericht der Forschungsgemeinschaft der Naturwissenschaftlichen, Technischen und Medizinischen Institute der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1960, p. 244
   | This article about a German chemist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |