Ernst Otto Steinborn

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Ernst Otto Heinrich Steinborn (born May 8, 1932 in Dresden ; † April 20, 2017 ) was a German chemist ( theoretical chemistry ). He was a professor at the University of Regensburg .

Life

Steinborn studied physics from 1952 at the TU Dresden with a diploma in theoretical physics with Wilhelm Macke in 1959. He then went to Gustav Richter at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Zeuthen to do his doctorate. In 1961 he attended the Enrico Fermi summer school in Varenna and stayed in the West after the Wall was built in 1961. He received his doctorate in 1965 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under Hermann Hartmann (on the interpretation of the ultraviolet absorption spectra of alkali halide crystals) and was a post-doctoral student from 1967 to 1969 with Klaus Ruedenberg at Iowa State University. In 1969 he became a research assistant to Günter Gliemann at the TU Berlin and completed his habilitation in the same year. In 1970 he became scientific advisor and professor at the TU Berlin and from 1971 until his retirement in 1997 he was a professor in Regensburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. In memory of Prof. Dr. Ernst-Otto Heinrich Steinborn. University of Regensburg, May 5, 2017, accessed on May 7, 2017 .