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Swiss-German chemist
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
13 May 1921(Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany)
Death:
28 August 2006(Herrliberg, Meilen District, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland)
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The details
Biography
Edgar Heilbronner (May 13, 1921 – August 28, 2006) was a Swiss German chemist. In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius cyclic annulenes, but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003.
Edgar Heilbronner was a professor at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland for many years but then was offered a professorship in Basel, Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his career.