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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.

On 13 April 1880, he purchased the Chemische und pharmacheuische Produktenhandlung Dr. F. Snitter & Co., a merchant in photochemicals in Munich, and founded his own firm, Otto Perutz Trockenplattenfabrik. He developed a method for the industrial production of Eosin-Silver-Plates which had been invented by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel and Johann Baptist Obernetter, and was licensed by Vogel to produce dry plates. This was crucial for the development of colour photography. They were an immediate success when they were introduced in August 1887. In 1896, Perutz-Plates were used for radiography for the first time.

Perutz sold his firm on 1 July 1897. He was a member of the supervisory board of the Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrikate from 1902 until his death in 1922. The Perutz-Photowerke became part of Agfa in 1964.

References

1. ^ Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1065–1066. ISBN 9781135873264. Retrieved 25 November 2024.

• 1847 births
• 1922 deaths
• People from the Austrian Empire
• 19th-century German chemists
• Photochemistry
• People from Teplice
• 20th-century German chemists