Hans Batzer

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Hans Batzer (1919–1990) chemist, research director at Ciba AG, honorary professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the University of Konstanz Grab at the Bromhübel cemetery in Arlesheim, Basel-Land
Grave in the Bromhübel cemetery in Arlesheim , Basel-Land

Hans Batzer (born December 16, 1919 in Offenburg ; † December 17, 1990 ) was a German chemist ( macromolecular chemistry ).

Batzer was the son of the secondary school teacher Ernst Batzer and received his doctorate in 1946 at the University of Freiburg under Hermann Staudinger (on the classification of tannins in macromolecular chemistry and their analytical methods). After the war he rebuilt the chemical laboratories, which had been partially destroyed by bombing. When he discovered that the university was neglecting macromolecular chemistry after Staudinger's retirement, he left the university disappointed and went to the chemical industry in Switzerland. He became Research Director at Ciba AG in Basel. There he developed epoxy resins and additives for polymers that made them resistant to photochemical degradation and auto-oxidation.

He was honorary professor at the TH Stuttgart and most recently at the University of Konstanz.

In 1981 he received the Hermann Staudinger Prize .

Fonts

  • Polymer materials, 3 volumes, Thieme 1984, 1985
  • Introduction to macromolecular chemistry, Heidelberg: Hüthig, 1958 (preface by Hermann Staudinger)

literature

  • Gerhard Wegner: Hermann Staudinger: Aspects of Fame and Memory, Motivation and Impact, in: Virgil Percec (Ed.), Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 years after the Staudinger Nobel Prize I, Springer 2013, p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Batzer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist (macromolecular chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1990