Georg Brauer
Georg Brauer (born April 11, 1908 in Bochum , † February 26, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German chemist and university professor.
Brauer was the son of the chemist Eberhard Brauer and Elisabeth Brauer, the daughter of Wilhelm Ostwald , who together with her brother taught him up to high school.
Brauer studied chemistry and obtained his doctorate in 1932 at the University of Freiburg with his thesis on body-centered cubic alloy phases and the atomic radii of base metals in alloys and completed his habilitation in 1940 at the University of Darmstadt with a thesis on the oxides, nitrides and carbides of niobium . In 1946 he became an associate professor in Freiburg, in 1959 he was offered the chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Freiburg, which he held until his retirement in 1976.
His main research areas were inorganic chemistry , solid state chemistry and metal chemistry . Brauer was editor of the three-volume manual of preparative inorganic chemistry published by Verlag Ferdinand Enke , Stuttgart since 1946 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Brauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alexander Kipnis: Brauer, Georg (1908–2001), chemist
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brewer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2001 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |