Günter Scheibe

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Günter Scheibe (born November 24, 1893 in Munich , † May 31, 1980 in Stuttgart ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry ). He was a professor at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Scheibe was the son of an ENT doctor and later head of the ENT clinic at the University of Erlangen. After graduating from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich in 1913, he studied chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and later at the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate in 1918 under Otto Fischer on a topic on organic dyes (“Zur Wissens der Cyanine ( Quinocyanines ) "). He was briefly an assistant at the Medical Academy Dusseldorf and then again in Erlangen, where he joined with Max Busch 1922 habilitation , also on organic dyes. In 1924 he became an associate professor and headed the physical chemistry department in the Institute for Applied Chemistry. In 1928 he was a visiting scientist with James Franck in Göttingen, where he made friends with Gerhard Herzberg . In 1930 he became a full professor and in 1932 a full professor of physical chemistry at the Technical University of Munich at the newly established Institute for Physical Chemistry. At the time of National Socialism he became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . He turned down a call to Göttingen in 1951 to succeed Arnold Eucken and was still active at his institute after his retirement in 1961.

He dealt with spectroscopy and organic dyes. He also developed spectroscopic techniques, such as UV absorption spectroscopy, which he got to know from Franck in Göttingen. He assigned the UV and other spectra of molecules to individual atomic groups and atoms in the molecule, using them to determine binding states in inorganic molecules and clarified the spectra of halogen ions with Franck. In addition to absorption, he also dealt with emission spectral analysis and investigated reversible polymerisation processes. The Scheibesche polymer is named after him and the disc phenomenon in spectroscopy.

He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1940) and the Leopoldina (1957). He was an honorary doctor from the University of Erlangen and the LMU Munich. In 1964 he received the Liebig Memorial Medal and in 1968 the Bavarian Order of Merit . He was in the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society and on the board of the Deutsches Museum , where he played a key role in expanding the chemical department. He was also President of the German Committee for Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.

He was co-founder of Spectrochimica Acta and co-editor of the reports of the Bunsen Society.

Fonts

  • Spectroscopic and radiometric analysis, in W. Böttger (Ed.), Physical Methods of Analytical Chemistry, Volume 1, Leipzig, Akad. Verlagsges. 1933, pp. 1-184
  • with Adolf Henrici: Chemical Spectral Analysis, in Böttger (Ed.) Physikal. Methods of Analyt. Chemistry, Volume 3, 1939
  • with W. Frömel: Molecular spectra of solutions and liquids, in A. Eucken, KL Wolf (Hrsg.) The spectra, origin and connection with the structure of matter, 1937
  • with Friedrich Bär , KE Schulte, Oelkers, Karl-Ernst Quentin : Frontier areas of food science , magazine for food analysis and research, Volume 108, Issue 1, 1958, pp. 75–76
  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989
  • Reversible polymerization as the cause of novel absorption bands of dyes, Kolloid-Zeitschriftt, Volume 82, 1938, pp. 1-14.

literature

  • Obituary in reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Volume 100, 1996, pp. 508-516
  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989
  • Horst Kant:  Scheibe, Günter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , pp. 621 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Before that there was only one extraordinary professorship for applied electrochemistry.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 528
personal data
SURNAME Disk, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1980
Place of death Stuttgart