Otto Saly Binswanger
Otto Saly Binswanger was a German-American chemist and toxicologist.
Life
Born to the noted Binswanger family and of German-Jewish descent, Otto Saly Binswanger was raised and schooled in Augsburg.Apart from a one-year interruption for obligatory military service in 1873-74, Binswanger attended the Chemical/Technical Department of the newly founded Munich Polytechnic School as an auditor between 1872 and 1876. In October 1876, he enrolled at the University of Erlangen, where he completed his Ph.D. dissertation on cresol and its derivatives under the direction of Eugen von Gorup Besanez in November 1877.
Binswanger emigrated to the U.S., where he enrolled at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. After three years of study, he completed a medical doctorate in May 1882.
Following his medical studies, Binswanger moved to Portland, Oregon, where he was a general practitioner. In December 1883, he was appointed to a professorship in chemistry and toxicology at the Willamette University College of Medicine in Salem. In 1886, he and several colleagues relocated to the newly founded University of Oregon Medical School in Portland, where he taught until his death.