Otto Perutz
German chemist
Died when: 74 years 175 days (893 months)Star Sign: Leo
Otto Perutz (27 July 1847, Teplice, Bohemia – 18 January 1922, Munich Germany) was an Austrian-German chemist.From 1872 to 1876 Perutz was director of Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrikate (Bavarian Corporation for Chemical and Agrochemical Products Inc., later Süd-Chemie AG) in Munich-Heufeld.
In 1880 he founded his own firm Otto Perutz Trockenplattenfabrik in Munich.He developed a method for the industrial production of Eosin-Silver-Plates which had been invented by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel and Johann Baptist Obernetter.
This was crucial to develop colour photography.In 1896 Perutz-Plates were used for radiography for the first time.Perutz sold his firm in 1897.
He was member of the supervisory board of Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrikate from 1902 until his death in 1922.
The Perutz-Photowerke became part of Agfa in 1964.(See also: Perutz)
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