Gustav Kortüm

Gustav Ferdinand Albert Kortüm (born June 14, 1904 in Groß-Methling , † December 1, 1990 in Tübingen ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Kortum was the son of a pastor and studied from 1922 Chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and was in 1928 Georg Bredig with the work to knowledge of the catalytic hydrogen cyanide synthesis from carbon monoxide and ammonia doctorate . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin and was from 1929 assistant to Johannes Ludwig Ebert (1894–1956) in Würzburg and from 1931 assistant to Hans von Halban at the University of Zurich. From 1937 he taught at the University of Tübingen , where he became full professor and director of the newly founded Institute for Physical Chemistry in 1942 and retired in 1971.

He dealt with spectrophotometry , electrochemistry and electrolyte solutions (review of the Debye-Hückel theory and the theory of solvent mixtures by Lars Onsager ), vapor pressure measurements on binary systems and reflection spectroscopy . In 1959 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

• with Heinrich Lachmann: Introduction to chemical thermodynamics. Wiley-VCH, 1981.
• Textbook of electrochemistry, Verlag Chemie, 1957.
• Reflection spectroscopy. Springer, 1969.
• Colorimetry - photometry and spectrometry. Instructions for performing absorption, emission, fluorescence, scattering, turbidity and reflection measurements, Springer, 1955.

literature

• Gustav Kortüm. In: Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists. Harri Deutsch, 1989.