Frank Buff
Frank P. Buff (born February 13, 1924 in Munich , † July 1, 2009 in Rochester , New York ) was an American chemist ( physical chemistry , theoretical chemistry).
Buff came to San Francisco in 1937 and graduated from high school there in 1941. He then studied physics and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor's degree in 1944 with top grades. From 1944 to 1946 he was in the US Army in the intelligence service. He then continued his studies at Caltech (while also working as a chemist at Shell Development) and received his PhD in 1949 under John G. Kirkwood . From 1950 he was at the University of Rochester , where he became a professor and retired in 1994.
Buff developed the Kirkwood Buff theory of solutions with his teacher Kirkwood . and a theory of surface tension. He dealt with statistical mechanics of liquids, solutions and interfaces, chemical kinetics, light scattering, critical phenomena, kinetics of nucleation , electrochemistry, physics of thin films, zwitterions and capillarity.
He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1959/60 he was visiting professor at the University of Utrecht .
Fonts
- Theory of Capillarity , in: Siegfried Flügge Handbuch der Physik , Volume 10, 1960
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirkwood, Buff Statistical mechanical theory of solutions, Part 1, J. Chem. Phys., Volume 19, 1951, pp. 774-777
- ↑ Buff, Kirkwood The statistical mechanical theory of surface tension, J. Chem. Phys., Volume 17, 1949, pp. 338-343
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Buff, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buff, Frank P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2009 |
| Place of death | Rochester , New York |