Emil Abel

Emil Abel (born June 2, 1875 in Vienna , † April 3, 1958 in London ) was an Austrian chemist . He was a professor and board member at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University in Vienna. His main research area was chemical kinetics ; in addition, he also researched chemical thermodynamics and theoretical electrochemistry.

Studies and professorship

Emil Abel studied at the Technical University (TH) in Vienna, graduating with distinction in 1898, and did his doctorate with Walther Nernst in Göttingen . In 1919 he became associate professor for physical chemistry at the TH, and finally in 1923 full professor.

Expulsion from Vienna

After the “Anschluss” of Austria , Emil Abel was dismissed with immediate effect by a decree issued on April 22, 1938. His son Stefan, who studied law, also had to leave university. As a member of the German Physical Society, Emil Abel was asked by the then chairman Peter Debye on December 9, 1938 to resign from the society. He resigned from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna , of which he was a corresponding member, at the end of 1938 after the academy was put under pressure to separate from its “non-Aryan” members.

Abel emigrated to London in 1939 and worked at University College London until 1940 .

Abel was married to Camilla, nee Adler, and had two children with her (in addition to Stefan also Marianne). His second wife was Edith, née Mautner.

Fonts (selection)

Hypochlorite theory, a physico-chemical study. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1904.
He described the elements iodine (with Franz Halla ) and bromine for Abegg's Handbuch der inorganic Chemie , Vol. 4, 1912.

literature

Michaela Kaiser: The history of the chair for technical electrochemistry at the Vienna University of Technology in the first half of the 20th century. Diploma thesis at the Technical University of Vienna, 2011, pp. 63–73 ( online ; PDF; 4.0 MB).

Web links

Literature by and about Emil Abel in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Emil Abel at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : The Academy of Sciences in Vienna in the Third Reich . In: Eduard Seidler u. a. (Ed.): The nation's elite in the Third Reich. The relationship of academies and their scientific environment to National Socialism (= Acta historica Leopoldina ; 22). Halle / Saale 1995, pp. 133–159, there 137.

personal data
SURNAME	Abel, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1958
Place of death	London

[1] Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Emil Abel at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.

[2] Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : The Academy of Sciences in Vienna in the Third Reich . In: Eduard Seidler u. a. (Ed.): The nation's elite in the Third Reich. The relationship of academies and their scientific environment to National Socialism (= Acta historica Leopoldina ; 22). Halle / Saale 1995, pp. 133–159, there 137.