Famous People with Name Ambros

August Wilhelm Ambros            Origin/Culture/Country: German

August Wilhelm Ambros: was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.He was born at Vysoké Mýto near Rokycany, Bohemia.[1] His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter[2] (1773-1850), the musical archaeologist and collector. Ambros studied at the University of Prague[1] and was well-educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding passion. He was, however, destined for the law and an official career in the Austrian civil service, and he occupied various important posts under the ministry of justice, music being an avocation.

Otto Ambros            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Otto Ambros: was a German chemist, notably involved with the research of chemical nerve agents. From 1926 he worked at BASF at Ludwigshafen (where the Oppau explosion had taken place in 1921). In 1930 he spent a year studying in the Far East. From 1934 he worked with IG Farben. In 1935 he became head of their plant at Schkopau. He worked for the part of IG Farben that developed chemical warfare chemicals, such as nerve agents, with his team discovering sarin (in 1938) and soman (in 1944), both nerve agent chemicals. He was an advisor to Carl Krauch, a company executive.