Arnold Munster
Arnold Münster (born January 5, 1912 in Oberursel ; † August 1, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist (physical chemistry), known for his work and a textbook on statistical mechanics.
Life
His father was president of the regional court in Münster , where Arnold Münster graduated from high school in 1930. He then studied music, then law and finally chemistry in Münster.
On February 1, 1935, he was arrested for membership in a communist youth group and for communist leaflets and sentenced to eight years in prison. While in custody, he continued his studies, supported by his brother Clemens and Paul Ohlmeyer, a related chemistry professor from Tübingen. His father's influence and treatment for epilepsy helped him survive imprisonment. In 1942 he was released on parole. His first publication followed soon after, containing the basic idea of the Flory-Huggins theory (by Paul Flory , Maurice Huggins 1941). After his release he was used in the Penal Battalion 999 in the Balkans. He married in 1944.
After the war he continued the study of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg continues, received his degree in 1947 and was in the same year PhD (Some Properties of Dissolved thread-like molecules) and in Frankfurt in 1949 habilitation ( Statistical Thermodynamics of binary liquid mixtures ).
He then conducted research in Marburg with Wilhelm Jost and, when the scholarship expired, spent two years in the research laboratory of the Waldhof pulp factory (Mannheim) and from 1951 to 1958 head of the metal laboratory of the Metallgesellschaft in Frankfurt. In 1953 he was visiting professor in Strasbourg and in the same year became an adjunct professor in Frankfurt / M. (where he was supported by Hermann Hartmann ). In 1959 he had a teaching position for statistical thermodynamics in Göttingen and in 1960 he was visiting professor at the Sorbonne. Full professor since 1962, he became director of the Institute for Theoretical Physical Chemistry in Frankfurt in 1963 . In 1977 he retired.
In 1958 he received the medal from the Free University of Brussels.
He was a pianist and published a musicological work on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (Studies on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Henle Verlag 1982). Münster also published a book On Goethe's Relationship to Dante (RG Fischer 1990).
As a physicist, his brother Clemens Münster was head of the development department at Carl Zeiss in Jena and, from 1954 to 1971, television director at Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Fonts
- Statistical Thermodynamics, Springer Verlag 1956
- English edition in 2 volumes: Statistical Thermodynamics , Springer Verlag, 1969, 1974
- Statistical thermodynamics of high polymer solutions, in: Herbert A. Stuart (Ed.): Die Physik der Hochpolmeren, Springer Verlag, Volume 2, 1953, pp. 81–192
- Solubility and Swelling, in: Herbert A. Stuart (Ed.): Die Physik der Hochpolmeren, Springer Verlag, Volume 2, 1953, pp. 193-252
- Principles of Statistical Mechanics, in Handbuch der Physik , Volume 3-2, 1959
- Statistical Thermodynamics of Condensed Phases, Handbuch der Physik, Volume 13, 1962
- On the theory of Bose-Einstein condensation, Zeitschrift für Physik A, Volume 144, 1956, pp. 197-213
- Thermodynamique des processus irreversibles, 1966
- Chemical thermodynamics, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1969
- English translation: Classical Thermodynamics, Wiley Interscience 1970
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Münster in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Sillescu biography, pdf
- Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
- Wever, Dieter: In memory of Arnold Münster , corridor talks, University of Münster, 2017 (biography, pdf)
Individual evidence
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : University members suffered existential life breaks: Research on Nazi victims at the themed evening in the city archive , Münster, Münster, July 19, 2016
- ↑ On the theory of the solution of high polymer substances , Kolloid-Zeitschrift, Volume 105, 1943, pp. 1-5.
- ↑ It became worthless with the currency reform. Academic positions for purely theoretical chemists were hardly available at that time.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Munster, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberursel |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1990 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |