Georg Masing

Georg Masing (born February 2, 1885 in Saint Petersburg , † October 2, 1956 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist, metallurgist and university professor .

Life

Masing was a student of Gustav Tammann at the University of Göttingen . The existing metallographic laboratory at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen under the direction of Rudolf Vogel was integrated into the newly founded Institute for General Metallurgy - later the Institute for Metal Physics, today Materials Physics - under the direction of Masing .

Georg Masing was married to Martha Tischer and has two daughters Vera Edelgard (* 1916; † 2019) and Lilli Renate (* 1923; † 2017).

In 1939 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1958, Peter Haasen was appointed to succeed Masing at the chair for metal physics and general metal science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Memberships

• Long-term chairman and honorary chairman of the German Society for Material Science

Honors

• The Masing Memorial Prize of the German Society for Material Science (DGM) was founded in 1957.

Fonts

• with Rudolf Vogel: Handbuch der Metallphysik. The heterogeneous equilibria. Volume 2. Academic Publishing Society, Frankfurt am Main 1937

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Masing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claus Priesner:  Masing, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 354 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The history of physical chemistry in Göttingen.
2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 161.
3. ↑ Masing Memorial Prize ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Masing Memorial Prize ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.