Hermann Kast
Hermann Kast (* 1869 in Stuttgart ; † September 6, 1927 in Schruns ) was a German explosives chemist.
Kast studied chemistry in Berlin, where he was a student of Ferdinand Tiemann and Emil Fischer as well as August Wilhelm von Hofmann and received his doctorate in 1893 (a contribution to the knowledge of higher aliphatic amidoximes). He was one of the most famous explosives chemists in Germany and senior government councilor at the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. This emerged in 1920 from the Military Technical Research Institute in Berlin-Plötzensee, where he was previously. He had the title of professor.
Several terms, methods and processes in explosives chemistry and technology were named after him (including the Kast apparatus for measuring explosive force, von Kast coefficients, and von Kast experiment). He developed methods for measuring the properties and characterization of explosives, in particular the explosion temperature.
Kast was one of the experts after the explosion of the BASF nitrogen works in Oppau in September 1921. He published the results in a series of articles in the journal for the entire gun and explosives industry (Volume 20, 1925, Volume 21, 1926).
He wrote a monograph on explosives and detonators, and Ludwig Metz posthumously published a manuscript by Kast on their chemical analysis in 1931. This book was also translated into Spanish (1959).
Kast was a long member of the council and vice-president of the Berlin district association of the Society of German Chemists.
He last lived in Berlin-Grunewald.
Fonts
- Instructions for the chemical and physical investigation of explosives and detonators, Vieweg 1909 (special print from Post's chemical-technical analysis , 3rd edition)
- Explosives and detonators, Vieweg 1921, Archives
- with Ludwig Metz: Chemical investigation of explosives and detonators, Vieweg 1931, 2nd edition 1944
Web links
- Obituary in Nature , Volume 121, Jan. 14, 1928, p. 66
- Encyclopedia Treccani (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani
- ^ Obituary in Nature
- ^ Title page of his book Spreng- und Zündstoffe , 1921, there as: Prof. Dr. H. Kast, government councilor and member of the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
- ^ The explosion in Oppau on September 21, 1921 and the activities of the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt.pdf , commons
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kast, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1927 |
| Place of death | Schruns |