Gerhard Emig (chemist)
Gerhard Emig (* 1938 in Bensheim , Hessen ) is a German chemist.
Life
Emig studied chemistry in Darmstadt and received his doctorate in 1965 at the Institute for Chemical Technology . He then worked at the Institute for Technical Chemistry in Erlangen as a research assistant under Hanns Hofmann , where he received his habilitation in 1975 . In 1978 he was appointed professor . In 1989 he was offered a position at the Institute for Chemical Technology at the University of Karlsruhe . In 1992 he moved back to the chair for chemical reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he retired in 2003 .
The focus of his scientific work was on reaction engineering of the heterogeneous catalysis of gas phase reactions and the modeling of reactors. The use of laughing gas (N 2 O) as an oxidizing agent was the focus of his work. Another area of work was the development of microreactors . Gerhard Emig received numerous prizes and awards, including a. from the German Association for Chemical and Process Engineering the Gerhard Damköhler Medal, from the German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal the Carl Engler Medal and from DECHEMA the DECHEMA Medal .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Emig in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emig, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensheim , Hesse |