Rolf Huisgen is a German chemist. He was born in Gerolstein

Gerolstein

Gerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Gerolstein is headquarters to a large mineral water firm, Gerolsteiner Brunnen...

 and studied in Munich under the supervision of Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele...

. After completing his Ph.D. in 1943 and his habilitation in 1947, he became professor at the University of Tübingen in 1949. He came back to the University of Munich in 1952 where he stayed dedicated to the research long after his emeritation in 1988.

Besides his 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition

1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, also known as the Huisgen cycloaddition or Huisgen reaction, is an organic chemical reaction belonging to the larger class of concerted, pericyclic cycloadditions. It is the reaction between a 1,3-dipole and a dipolarophile, most of which are substituted alkenes, to...

, which are also known as the Huisgen cycloaddition or Huisgen reaction, he had a big influence on chemistry departments in Germany and Austria, due to his large number of habilitants becoming professors. Ivar Ugi, Johann Mulzer

Johann Mulzer

Johann Hermann Wolfgang Mulzer is a German organic chemist, best known for his work in total synthesis. Since 1996, he has been a professor of chemistry at the University of Vienna . He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1994 and Emil Fischer Medal in 2010.-References:...

, Bernd Giese

Bernd Giese

Bernd Giese is a chemist at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland who specializes in the bio-organic chemistry and synthesis of radicals in biological systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1969, and his Habilitation from the University of Freiburg in 1976...

, Johann Gasteiger, Herbert Mayr

Herbert Mayr

Herbert Mayr is a former politician from the autonomous German province of South Tyrol in Italy.Mayr studied sport in Bologna during the mid-1960s, at the end of the 1970s was a professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1987 until 1994 was the chairman of the sports club SSV Bozen.Mayr was...

, Hans-Ulrich Reissig  and Reinhard Brückner are only a few of them.