Albert Weller

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Albert Weller (born April 5, 1922 in Welzheim ; † September 27, 1996 in Bovenden ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry , photochemistry ). He dealt with electrochemistry and spectroscopy .

Weller studied chemistry from 1940 at the University of Leipzig and from 1944 at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1950 under Gustav Kortüm . He then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen with Theodor Förster (1950/51). In 1951 he was a post-doctoral student with Robert Livingston at the University of Minnesota and in 1952 again worked for Theodor Förster, who had gone to the TH Stuttgart. There he completed his habilitation in 1958 (protolytic reactions of excited molecules). In 1962 he became professor of physical chemistry at the Free University of Amsterdam and in 1965 director at the Max Planck Institute for Spectroscopy in Göttingen and honorary professor at the University of Göttingen. From 1971 to 1990 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.

1968/1969 he was visiting professor at Brandeis University , 1975 at Lomonossow University , 1979 at the Catholic University of Leuven and in 1981 at the University of Western Ontario .

He undertook fundamental investigations into electronically excited molecules in the liquid phase (kinetics, spectroscopy, thermodynamics). He observed the interaction of electronically excited states with the solvent via the spectral shift and quenching of fluorescence. He investigated intra- and intermolecular proton transfer in acid-base reactions of excited states, electron transfer in excited donor and acceptor molecules and complex formation of excited molecules (excimes, exciplexes).

In 1974 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and in 1985 of the Leopoldina . He was an honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Leuven (1983) and the University of Bayreuth (1987). In 1962 he received the Bunsen Society's Bodenstein Prize for Physical Chemistry . In 1987 he gave the Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture .

The Albert Weller Prize for young scientists has been awarded to him since 1999 by the Photochemistry Section of the Society of German Chemists and the Bunsen Society for an outstanding dissertation in the field of photochemistry or spectroscopy and is endowed with 1000 euros.

Albert Weller had been married to Brigitte von der Chevallerie since 1951 and had two daughters and a son with her.

literature

  • Jürgen Troe : Albert Weller 1922–1996, in: Karl Arndt u. a. (Ed.), Göttinger Gelehre, Volume 1, Wallstein 2001, p. 688

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orbituary. Albert Weller, 1922–1996 . In: EPA Newsletter. No. 58, November 1996. p. 6
  2. ^ Member entry of Albert Weller at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on November 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Albert Weller Prize: Call 2018
  4. ^ Albert Weller Prize: previous winners
  5. ^ Klaas Zachariasse: Albert Weller, 1922-1996. In: EPO Newsletter, No. 58, November 1996. November 11, 1996, p. 3 , accessed April 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weller, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist (physical chemistry, photochemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Welzheim
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1996
Place of death Bovenden