Gerhard Dickel (physical chemist)

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Gerhard Dickel (born October 28, 1913 in Augsburg ; † November 3, 2017 in Pullach ) was a German chemist and physicist.

Life

Gerhard Dickel was the son of the school graduate Otto Dickel . He received his doctorate in 1939 under Klaus Clusius at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Together with Klaus Clusius, he developed a process for separating stable isotopes and enriching them using thermal diffusion , the so-called Clusius-Dickel separation tube . Initially, Dickel was the substitute head of the Institute for Physical Chemistry, but in 1957 he was appointed professor for physical chemistry at the LMU and thus head of the Physics Institute. In 1978 he retired.

The main focus of his work was thermophoresis in gases, isotope exchange in ion exchangers and diffusion in gels.

honors and awards

  • Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (1957)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Dickel obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 18, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (ed.): Press release P50-93 - Prof. Gerhard Dickel 80 years . October 19, 1993 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed November 18, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Dickel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2017
Place of death Pullach