Aristid von Grosse

Aristid von Grosse
Born	January 1905 Riga, Russian Empire
Died	July 21, 1985 Laguna Hills, California, United States
Institutions	Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Karl Andreas Hofmann, Otto Hahn
Known for	isolation of pure protactinium compounds

Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium oxide^[1] and was later able to produce metallic protactinium^[2][3] by decomposition of protactinium iodide.

Aristid was born in Riga in January 1905.^[4] He died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985.^[5]

References

1. Aristid von Grosse (1928). "Das Element 91; seine Eigenschaften und seine Gewinnung". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 61 (1): 233–245. doi:10.1002/cber.19280610137.
2. Aristid von Grosse (1934). "Element 91". Science 80 (2084): 512–516. doi:10.1126/science.80.2084.512. PMID 17734249.
3. V. Grosse, Aristid (1935). "Zur Herstellung von Protactinium". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) 68 (2): 307. doi:10.1002/cber.19350680218.
4. Weiner, Charles (January 11, 1974). "The Niels Bohr Library & Archives: Interview with Dr. Aristid Grosse". Philadelphia: American Institute of Physics.
5. "Aristid V. Grosse, 80; Did A-Bomb Research". The New York Times. July 23, 1985.