Hans Tropsch

Hans Tropsch was a chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of the Fischer-Tropsch process. Born in 1889 in Plan bei Marienbad, in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, he studied at the German Charles-Ferdinand University and the German Technical University in Prague from 1907 to 1913 and received his doctorate under Hans Meyer. He worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research from 1920 to 1928, alongside Fischer and Otto Roelen, where the process was patented. He became a professor at the Institute for Coal Research in Prague in 1928, worked in Chicago from 1931, and died in Essen in 1935 after returning to Germany ill.