Gundolf Kohlmaier

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Gundolf Hans Kohlmaier (born April 30, 1933 in Stuttgart ) is a theoretical chemist and environmental researcher .

From 1953 Kohlmaier studied chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart , switched to the TU Berlin as an exchange student in 1956 and then continued his studies at the University of Washington . After completing his master's thesis, he did his doctorate in 1962 with Benton Seymour Rabinovitch ("Collisional Deactivation of Vibrationally Excited Butyl Radicals by Inert Gases"). After a year as a teaching assistant and research fellow in Seattle, Hermann Hartmann brought him to the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1963 . On the one hand, he worked on molecular dynamics; a second focus was the calculation of the interaction of ions in the sodium and cesium chloride lattice, which then led to his habilitation in 1968 . In 1971 he was appointed professor for physical and theoretical chemistry in Frankfurt.

While the intramolecular energy transfer continued to be the focus of his research, the area of ​​interest shifted in the mid-1970s to a mathematically based description of chemical processes in nature and technology. Since then, he and his working group have concentrated on the theoretical description of the biosphere in the biogeochemical carbon cycle . In 1991 he was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize for the resulting "Frankfurt Biosphere Model" . Kohlmaier used the attentiveness associated with this to demand a clearing stop for all tropical forests because the amounts of CO 2 released by humans could soon no longer be managed by the vegetation.

Fonts

  • H. Hartmann, with H. Heydtmann, J. Heidberg, G. Kohlmaier Elementary chemical processes Springer, Berlin 1968
  • Gundolf Kohlmaier, Michael Weber, Richard A. Houghton Carbon dioxide mitigation in forestry and wood industry Springer, Berlin 1998
  • Selected papers of Gundolf Hans Kohlmaier: from kinetics and energy transfer of molecular systems to dynamics of global systems: the carbon cycle and the biosphere Frankfurt am Main 1998

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Multipole polarizabilities for atoms and ions with noble gas configuration " Theoret. Chim. Acta 7, 189, 1967
  2. ↑ "Calculation of the polarization energy in ion crystals" Theoret. Chim. Acta 7, 196, 1967
  3. ↑ Protection for the tropical forest
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmaier, Gundolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlmaier, Gundolf H .; Kohlmaier, Gundolf Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and environmental researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart