Fritz Weigel

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Fritz Weigel (* 1926 ; † October 10, 1986 ) was a German chemist who dealt with nuclear chemistry .

Weigel studied chemistry in Mainz and Göttingen and received his doctorate under Wilhelm Geilmann in Mainz. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley with Glenn T. Seaborg and Burris B. Cunningham . In 1965 he completed his habilitation in inorganic chemistry and radiochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he became professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry in 1978. In 1957 he was at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley.

He dealt with inorganic chemistry and nuclear chemistry and published on compounds of promethium . In 1963 he presented metallic (elemental) promethium for the first time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory .

Robert Schwankner is one of his diploma students in Munich .

He was married to Anne Weigel and has two sons, Andreas and Matthias Weigel.

Fonts

  • with V. Scherer, H. Henschel: Die Chemie des Promethiums. In: Radiochimica Acta. Volume 4, 1965, pp. 18-23.
  • The chemistry of promethium. In: Fortschr. Chem. Forsch. 1969, 12 (4), pp. 539-621. doi : 10.1007 / BFb0051097 .
  • Chemistry for mechanical engineers and electrical engineers. Vieweg / Teubner, Uni-text 1976.
  • Chapter Uranium and (with Joseph Katz and Glenn Seaborg ) Plutonium in Katz, Seaborg, Lester Morss (eds.): Chemistry of the Actinide Elements. Volume 1, Chapman and Hall 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The essay by Herbert Brandl New motivational school experiments on the subject of aluminum in practice in the natural sciences - Chemistry in School 1986, 35, pp. 30–33 is dedicated to him on his 60th birthday. VIAF states 1914 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ GDCh applicant list. In: News from chemistry, technology and the laboratory. 35, 1987, p. 83, doi : 10.1002 / nadc.19870350130 . There it is stated that he died at the age of 60.
  3. ↑ He published The isolation of Americium 241 in 100 Milligram quantities from large amounts of impurities , Lawrence Berkeley Lab, UCRL-3934, September 1957.
  4. ^ Fritz Weigel: Representation of metallic promethium. In: Angewandte Chemie . 1963, 75 (10), pp. 451-451. doi : 10.1002 / anie.19630751009 .
personal data
SURNAME Weigel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1986