Ernst Trommsdorff
Ernst Trommsdorff (born April 30, 1905 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † 1996 in Essen ) was a German chemist who is best known as the namesake of the Trommsdorff effect .
Life
He studied chemistry at the TH Hannover and the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1932 on polyacrylic acid as a model of protein under the later Nobel Prize winner Hermann Staudinger . In 1933 he joined Röhm & Haas AG as a chemist . In 1939 he became head of research there, in 1954 deputy and in 1959 full managing director of the company.
His fields of work included suspension , emulsion and block polymerisation , especially acrylic acid and its esters ( Plexiglas ).
Works
- Ernst Trommsdorff: Dr. Otto Röhm, chemist and entrepreneur , Econ Düsseldorf 1976, 296 pages, ISBN 3-430-19130-0
literature
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 16. Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1341.
Web links
- geschichte.evonik.de: Ernst Trommsdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Trommsdorff: About acrylic acid in Hermann Staudinger: The high molecular weight organic compounds, rubber and cellulose , Springer 1932, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-29567-0 .
- ↑ Ernst Trommsdorff, Herbert Köhle and Paul Lagally, on the polymerisation of methacrylic acid methyl ester , Makromolekulare Chemie 1948, 1 pp. 169-198, doi : 10.1002 / macp.1948.020010301 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trommsdorff, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1996 |
| Place of death | eat |