Hans Bode (engineering scientist)
Hans Bode (born October 13, 1947 in Siegen ; † January 8, 2008 in Stellenbosch , South Africa ) was a German engineering scientist. He was internationally known as an expert in catalytic converter technology .
Life
Hans Bode first completed an apprenticeship as a materials tester at the steel works in South Westphalia. He then studied metallurgy at what was then the State Engineering School in Dortmund and metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1978 he received his PhD in Berlin with his work on crystal forms of primarily solidified antimony crystals and SbSn crystals in binary and ternary alloys at the Department of Materials Science . PhD . He then worked as a research assistant at the TU Berlin, the Battelle Institute in Geneva, and the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf. He later moved to the power plant manufacturer Interatom , a subsidiary of Siemens .
1989 Bode received a call to the Chair of Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Wuppertal, today's University of Wuppertal . For several years he was the dean of the former independent department of machine technology.
He died of a heart attack while jogging in the morning during a research stay at the South African University of Stellenbosch . Bode lived in Remscheid , where he was also involved in local politics (FDP). He was married and had two grown children.
Act
Hans Bode's main research areas were the properties and changes of metal alloys under high temperatures in car exhaust systems. His specialty was catalytic converters with the development and characterization of high-temperature corrosion-resistant alloys as well as the prediction of their service life. He has published numerous scientific papers on the subject.
In 2000, Bode was awarded the Steel Innovation Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany as a cooperation partner of Krupp VDM , the Fraunhofer Institute, Bremen, and Emitec . In 2003 he received a prize for his latest developments in the promising field of catalysts for diesel engines as part of the "Ruhrgebiet Future Competition" of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Fonts
- Hans Bode: Materials Aspects in Automotive Catalytic Converters , Wiley-VCH 2002, ISBN 3-527-30491-6
Web links
- City network Wuppertal: "Prof. Hans Bode died ” , January 20, 2008
- Stellenbosch University: "Visiting SU Prof dies in Stellenbosch" ( Memento from March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Future for Diesel Kats", Wuppertaler Unimagazin, Issue No. 22, 2003 ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bode, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineering scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2008 |
| Place of death | Stellenbosch , South Africa |