Benno Lux

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Benno Lux (born June 16, 1930 in Styria ; † March 4, 2013 ) was an Austrian chemist , powder metallurgist and hard metal specialist.

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After graduating from high school in 1948, Benno Lux studied technical chemistry at the Technical University of Graz , eventually specializing in inorganic and physical chemistry and graduated there in 1954 with Gustav Franz Hüttig as a graduate engineer . During his dissertation on the behavior of metal-rich, high-melting silicides towards boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen , which was supervised by Richard Kieffer and Hans Nowotny from the Technical University of Vienna (TU Vienna), he worked at the Metallwerk Plansee in Reutte / Tyrol. After his dissertation, Benno Lux moved to the Battelle Institute in Geneva / Switzerland, where he focused his research on industrial research in the fields of metallurgy , ceramics , hard metal , glass and building materials . Among other things, he worked on the hardening of eutectic melts and directed crystal growth and developed a process for the deposition of aluminum oxide using CVD on various tools. In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Vienna on the theory of nucleation during the solidification of metallic melts and received his Venia Docendi . In 1977, Lux became a professor there and took over the Institute for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Substances . In Vienna, too, Lux conducted research on cast iron, CVD and ceramics.

He worked intensively with Erik Lassner from Wolfram Bergbau und Hüttengesellschaft in Sankt Martin / Austria, whom he already knew from his time in Graz, in the field of powder metallurgy and tungsten research. For more than twenty years, numerous diploma and doctoral theses dealt with the reduction of tungsten oxide to tungsten metal, its carburization to tungsten carbide and the hard metal sintering process.

With the support of numerous industrial companies and the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research , Benno Lux began work on low-pressure diamond deposition in 1984. From 1985 to 1989 he was President of the International Plansee Society for Powder Metallurgy . In 1991 Benno Lux became editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials (IJRMHM), a position he held until he retired at the age of 75. He died after a long illness at the age of 82, leaving behind his wife Traudl and their three children, Heribert, Angelika and Cornelia.

Awards

literature

  • Herbert Danninger, Peter Weinberger: The Faculty of Technical Chemistry / The Faculty of Technical Chemistry . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20117-5 , pp. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolf-Dieter Schubert, Roland Haubner, Herbert Danninger, Burghard Zeiler, Erik Lassner, Hugo Ortner: Special Issue devoted to the 75th birthday of Em.O. Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Benno LUX, Vienna University of Technology, Austria . In: International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials . tape 24 , no. 5 , September 2006, p. 351 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijrmhm.2006.04.002 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Hugo M. Ortner, Roland Haubner: Obituary for Em.O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Benno Lux . In: International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials . tape 41 , November 2013, p. 1 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijrmhm.2013.03.003 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Herbert Danninger, Roland Haubner: Obituary Prof. Benno Lux. TU Vienna, March 5, 2013, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lux, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist, powder metallurgist and hard metal specialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Styria
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2013