Dietrich Menzel
Dietrich Menzel (born February 27, 1935 in Marienbad ) is a German physicist and university professor at the Technical University of Munich .
Menzel studied at the TH Darmstadt , where he received his doctorate in 1962. He completed his habilitation in 1967 and was then a private lecturer. In 1969 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich, where he was scientific advisor . In 1973 he became a full professor and in 2003 he retired.
In 1989 he became an external member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin .
He deals with chemical physics of surfaces and related spectroscopic methods , in particular with electron dynamics on surfaces and electron-stimulated reactions. For example, in 1964 he developed the Menzel-Gomer Redhead Model (MGR) for electron stimulated desorption (ESD). Electrons of low energy interact with atoms or molecules adsorbed on a surface and stimulate their electrons or ionize them so that they leave the surface (desorption).
In 1970 he received the Chemistry Prize from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1997 he received the Max Planck Research Prize , in 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University in Halifax and in 2000 he was awarded the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
- ↑ Dietrich Menzel, Robert Gomer: Desorption from Metal Surfaces by Low-Energy Electrons , J. Chem. Phys., Volume 41, 1964, pp. 3311-3328, independent Redhead 1964.
- ^ MGR model , University of Guelph
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| SURNAME | Menzel, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienbad |