Ewald Wicke

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Ewald Wicke (born August 17, 1914 in Elberfeld , † March 7, 2000 in Münster ) was a German chemist .

life and work

Ewald Wicke studied chemistry , physics and physical chemistry at the Universities of Cologne and Göttingen from 1933 to 1938 . During his studies he became a member of the SA in 1933 and a member of the NSDAP in 1937 after the suspension of admission . In 1938 he received his doctorate under Arnold Eucken in Göttingen .

In 1944 Ewald Wicke completed his habilitation with a paper on adsorption calorimetry on catalytically active surfaces. In 1949 he was appointed adjunct professor. After Eucken's death, he was entrusted with the provisional management of the Göttingen Institute for Physical Chemistry for several years.

In 1954 he received the "Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize" from the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry , which honored his work on the scientific justification of technical reaction control. In the same year he accepted a position at the University of Hamburg , where he took over the management of the Institute for Physical Chemistry .

Five years later, he accepted an appointment at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as director of the Physico-Chemical Institute. In the almost two and a half decades of its activity in Münster, this institute has become one of the most important research and teaching facilities for physical chemistry in Germany.

Honors

Wicke has become internationally known through almost 300 scientific publications, which has been expressed in a number of awards: The Process Engineering Society in the Association of German Engineers awarded him the Arnold Eucken Medal in 1962 . The German Society for Chemical Apparatus ( DECHEMA ) awarded him the DECHEMA medal in 1976 . Since 1972 he has been a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina zu Halle . The Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften elected him in 1976 as its full member, and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in 1980 as its corresponding member. The US National Academy of Engineering appointed him a member in 1983.

The supraregional appreciation of Wicke is also expressed in the award of honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Munich (1975) and the University of Karlsruhe (1991). The German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry , of which he was chairman in 1975/76, awarded him the "Bunsen Commemorative Coin" in 1981 for his pioneering scientific work and in 1990 made him an honorary member.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 675.
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Ewald Wicke
personal data
SURNAME Sweet pea, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2000
Place of death Muenster