Arnold Eucken
Arnold Eucken (born July 3, 1884 in Jena , † June 16, 1950 in Seebruck , Chiemsee ) was a German physical chemist .
Life
Eucken was born in Jena as the son of the philosopher and later Nobel laureate in literature, Rudolf Eucken . He was the brother of the economist Walter Eucken . He began his studies at the Christian Albrechts University . In 1903 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Kiel . When he was inactive , he moved to the home university of Jena and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .
Eucken worked for Walther Nernst and received his doctorate in 1906 on the subject of the stationary state between polarized hydrogen electrodes . In 1911 the habilitation followed in Berlin. At the age of 31 he could have taken over the chair at the TH Breslau in 1915 ; But that came about only in 1919. In the meantime, the First World War kept him in madness as a battery leader on the Western Front (where he received the Iron Cross 1st class) and as a teacher at the artillery school. In 1930 he went to the Georg August University of Göttingen as the successor to Gustav Tammann . After the NSDAP won the Reichstag election in March 1933 , Eucken became a member of the party in 1933. He continued to work as a full professor in Göttingen.
Since 1913 he was married to Fritzi Brausewetter ; the couple had four children. Eucken ended his life by suicide in 1950 .
Services
Eucken made important contributions in the field of physical chemistry and technical chemistry . He focused on specific heat at very low temperatures, the structure of liquids and electrolyte solutions , molecular physics (rotation, vibration), deuterium and heavy water , homogeneous and heterogeneous gas kinetics , catalysis , chemical engineering and chemical technology .
At his invitation, Edward Teller came to Göttingen in 1931, where he also worked with James Franck and especially with Hertha Sponer . Klaus Schäfer and Ernst Ulrich Franck were among his doctoral students . One of Eucken's last doctoral students was Manfred Eigen , who later won the Nobel Prize .
Honors
- 1929: Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (full member from 1931)
- 1936: elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1942: Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1944: Bunsen commemorative coin
- 1945: Dr.-Ing. eh the Technical University of Karlsruhe
The Association of German Engineers awards the Arnold Eucken Prize in his memory .
Works
- Outline of Physical Chemistry , Leipzig, various editions from 1922
- Textbook of chemical physics , Leipzig, various editions from 1930
- Arnold Eucken and Rudolf Suhrmann , physical-chemical practical exercises , Leipzig, various editions from 1928
- The Nernst heat law , results of the exact natural sciences 1 (1922), pp. 120–162.
literature
- Margot Becke-Goehring , Margaret Eucken: Arnold Eucken: chemist - physicist - university professor . Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 1995, ISBN 3-540-60083-3
- Ulrich Franck : Eucken, Arnold Thomas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 670 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Eucken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arnold Eucken
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 77 , 149.
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Arnold Eucken at academictree.org, accessed on February 4, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/chegemedia/Fakult%C3%A4t/Geschichte/Chemiehistorische+Notizen/14_3+Arnold+Eucken.pdf
- ^ A b Hermann Rink , Georg Bacmeister: Arnold Eucken Saxoniae Kiel - a greatness in physical chemistry . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 59 (2014), pp. 577-579.
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 140.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 78.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eucken, Arnold |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eucken, Arnold Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physical chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1884 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1950 |
Place of death | Seebruck |