Egon Wiberg

Egon Gustaf Martin Wiberg (born 3 June 1901 in Güstrow; died 24 November 1976 in Munich) was a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at LMU Munich.

Life Wiberg studied chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (TH Karlsruhe) since 1921 and completed his doctorate in 1927. He was an academic student of Stefan Goldschmidt and wrote his doctoral thesis on "Über den Abbau von Aminosäuren und Dipeptiden durch Hypobromit" ("On the degradation of amino acids and dipeptides by hypobromite"). In 1931, he completed his habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe. In 1951 he became a full professor and director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at LMU Munich. Honorary doctorate Dr. rer. nat. h. c. of the TH Aachen Bavarian Order of Merit

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