Arthur Simon
Arthur Simon (born February 25, 1893 in Barmen , † May 5, 1962 in Dresden ) was a German chemist and professor at the TH Dresden .
life and work
From 1912 he studied chemistry at the University of Munich . During his studies he became a member of the Munich fraternity Arminia in the winter semester of 1912/13 . Because of a fatal accident at a scale he was to two years imprisonment convicted. He was pardoned while serving as a soldier in World War I in 1914. He was awarded the Iron Cross . In 1919 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen . There he received his doctorate in 1922 under Richard Zsigmondy , then became an assistant in Clausthal , switched to the TH Stuttgart and habilitated there in 1927 with Ernst Wilke-Dörfurt , where he also worked as an associate in 1929. and in 1930 was appointed full professor. From 1932 to 1960 he was the successor to Fritz Foerster Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Inorganic-Technical Chemistry at the TH Dresden . From 1946 to 1951 he reorganized the Saxon university system as an honorary ministerial director in the Saxon Ministry for National Education and department head for the universities.
In November 1933, Simon signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He was a member of the Nazi teachers' association and a supporting member of the SS . From 1948 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and its vice-president from 1956 to 1962. In 1954 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1956 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . 1953 was with the National Prize of the GDR , III. Excellent " for his excellent work in the field of inorganic chemistry, especially Raman spectroscopy, which makes it possible to clarify the structure of complex inorganic compounds ". In 1956 he received the Clemens Winkler Medal . In 1958 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the TH Darmstadt . He received the Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1959) and the VVO in silver (1959).
Along with Walter Müller he discovered in 1925 the electrical Simon-Muller furnace , a crucible furnace for porcelain production . In 1927, another Simon's invention, the Simon cryostat , was patented.
Fonts
- Contributions to the quantitative chemical analysis of antimony and the knowledge of antimony pentoxide hydrates , 1923
- About the Raman Effect , 1938
- Lattice structure and catalysis in gas desulfurization , 1961
literature
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 912f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Fritsch, Rudolf: Simon, Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 429 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - becoming and fate. Munich 1967, p. 176.
- ↑ a b Helmut Werner : History of inorganic chemistry. The development of a science in Germany from Döbereiner to today. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-69310-8 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Reiner Pommerin (ed.): History of the TU Dresden 1828-2003 , Böhlau, Cologne 2003, p. 171
- ↑ National laureate party friend Professor Dr. Simon. In: LDPD information. 7th year, issue 17, 1953, p. 323 f.
- ↑ Arthur Simons Apparatus Inventions , Dresdner UniversitätsJournal No. 1 from January 20, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Johann Caspar Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5th 1962 |
| Place of death | Dresden |