Rainer Philippson

Rainer Philippson
Rainer Philippson
Nationality	German
	Scientific career
Fields	Organic chemistry
Institutions	German Academy of Sciences at Berlin; Schering AG;

Short description: German organic chemist

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, http://www.google.com/patents/US3729495, retrieved 2015-12-07
↑ Tätigkeitsbericht der Forschungsgemeinschaft der Naturwissenschaftlichen, Technischen und Medizinischen Institute der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1960, p. 244

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[1] Process for the preparation of 9alpha-chloro-11beta-hydroxy steroids, http://www.google.com/patents/US3729495, retrieved 2015-12-07

[2] Tätigkeitsbericht der Forschungsgemeinschaft der Naturwissenschaftlichen, Technischen und Medizinischen Institute der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1960, p. 244

Rainer Philippson
Nationality	German
Scientific career
Fields	Organic chemistry
Institutions	German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Schering AG