Adolf Schallamach

Adolf Schallamach (born December 30, 1905 in Posen ; † June 22, 1997 ) was a German-British engineer.

Life

After attending various grammar schools, Schallamach studied at the technical universities in Zurich and Breslau . In 1929 he graduated as a graduate engineer. From 1930 to 1933 he was employed as an assistant at the Physico-Chemical Institute of the Technical University in Breslau. In 1934 he completed his doctoral thesis at this university, but was no longer officially awarded his doctorate because he had to leave the university as a result of the rise of power of the National Socialists due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. He officially received his doctorate from the University of Braunschweig in 1948 .

Schallamach went to Great Britain in 1934 , where he found employment with the Davy Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution. In the next few years he was involved in researching crystalline structures at low temperatures. In 1942 he received the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

In 1943, Schallamach joined the British Rubber Producers' Research Association as a research physicist. He gained recognition for the contributions he made to understanding how rubber friction works.

Honors

In 1970, Schallamach received the Colwyn Medal and in 1982 the Charles Goodyear Medal. In 1998 he was inducted into the International Rubber Science Hall of Fame.

Fonts

• About the temperature dependence of the electron work function and the photoelectric effect of a metal surface at low temperatures , 1948.

literature

• Obituary in: Rubber Developments , Vol. 47, p. 75.
• John Grant: Who's who of British Scientists , 1971, p. 749.