E. Ulrich Franck

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Ernst Ulrich Franck (born August 2, 1920 in Hamburg ; † December 21, 2004 ) was a German chemist. He was professor for physical chemistry at the TH Karlsruhe .

Ulrich Franck studied from 1939 at the University of Goettingen (interrupted by military service in World War II), made there in 1946 with a degree in chemistry and was at 1950 Arnold Eucken doctorate . He then stayed in Göttingen, was at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1960 (where he established lifelong research contacts) and in the same year became professor and director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the TH Karlsruhe. In 1988 he retired, but remained scientifically active.

From 1969 to 1970 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , 1975 at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto and 1989/90 at Cornell University . In 1979 he was a visiting scientist at the CNEA (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica) in Buenos Aires .

He was a pioneer in the study of water and aqueous solutions at high pressures and temperatures. In 1981 he received the Bridgman Award for it . He has published over 200 scientific articles.

In 1970 he received the Bunsen commemorative coin , in 1989 the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal from the German Mineralogical Society and in 1988 the Yeram S. Touloukian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . In 1993 he received the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal .

In 1992 he became an honorary member of the IAPWS (International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam). He was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (1975), the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1991) and the Leopoldina (1978). In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg.

He had over 80 PhD students. His students include Michael Buback (Göttingen), Friedrich Hensel (Marburg), and Gerhard Schneider (Marburg).

Web links

• Literature by and about E. Ulrich Franck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tribute to E. Ulrich Franck (1920–2004) on iapws.org (PDF; 456 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Ernst Ulrich Franck at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018.