This book is dedicated to the memory of the author's esteemed friend,
colleague, and mentor, the late Prof essor Rudolf Criegee of the University
of Karlsruhe, West Germany.
His dedication to chemistry, especially ozone chemistry, was so intense
that even while weakened with emphysema (perhaps caused by breathing
ozone fumes in his makeshift laboratory after World War II) he worked
against time in his laboratory until the work was complete which helped
remove all remaining doubt concerning the validity of the carbonyl oxide
mechanism of ozonolysis, known as the Criegee mechanism. Less than a
year later he died.
Professor Criegee will always live in the memories of those who knew
him as the epitome of a true gentleman, a dedicated scientist and teacher,
and a genuine friend.
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