Harry Hahn

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Harry Hahn (born January 30, 1915 in Lodz , Congress Poland ; † January 28, 2003 in Stuttgart ) was a German chemist and professor at the universities of Hohenheim and Stuttgart .

Life

After graduating from the German High School in Lodz in 1933 , Hahn studied chemistry at the TH Danzig , and in 1937 he moved to Heidelberg University , where he worked as a research assistant. At the University of Danzig he was awarded a Dr. Ing. PhD. In 1940 Hahn was drafted into the Wehrmacht and participated in the Russian campaign. After the end of the war, Hahn completed his habilitation in chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, switched to teaching at the University of Kiel in 1946 and accepted the position at the University of Würzburg in 1959 . He was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the Hohenheim Agricultural University in 1963. As a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, he was also appointed honorary professor there in 1964. Harry Hahn retired in 1980. In 1981 he became an honorary member of the Corps Germania Hohenheim .

Important functions in Hohenheim

  • Professor and director of the Institute for Chemistry at the Hohenheim Agricultural University
  • Director of the Baden-Württemberg State Research Institute for Agricultural Chemistry
  • Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (1965–1967)
  • Dean of the Department of Biology and General Natural Sciences (1973–1974)

Main research areas

  • Crystal structure studies; preparative representation and X-ray structure elucidation of binary, ternary and quaternary oxides, sulfides, selenides and tellurides;
  • Application of modern physical methods in analytical chemistry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Hahn in the Hohenheim Professors Lexicon Ulrich Fellmeth : The Academic Teachers at the University of Hohenheim 1968 - 2005 (with K. Quast), Stuttgart 2008.
  2. ^ Directory of Weinheimheimer Corps Students 1990, p. 161
personal data
SURNAME Rooster, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz , Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2003
Place of death Stuttgart