Horst Stegemeyer

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Horst Stegemeyer (born September 9, 1931 in Hanover ) is a German chemist ( physical chemistry ) who deals with liquid crystals . Until his retirement he was a professor at the University of Paderborn .

Life

After graduating from the Lutherschule in Hanover, Stegemeyer studied chemistry at the Technical University of Hanover and the Technical University of Berlin from the winter semester of 1951 , earned his diploma in Hanover in 1958 and received his doctorate with Rudolf Suhrmann in 1961 with distinction (dissertation: On the photochemistry of stilbene ). Then he was assistant to Georg Richard Schultze at the chair for petroleum chemistry at the TH Hannover and from 1965 senior assistant to Ernst Lippert at the Iwan Stranski Institute for Physical Chemistry at the TU Berlin, where he completed his habilitation in 1967 and dealt with low-temperature luminescence . In 1969 he became Scientific Councilor and Professor at the TU Berlin, where he began to work with liquid crystals, was visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute under Ernst Fischer in 1972 and in 1974 he became full professor of physical chemistry at the newly founded University of Paderborn. In 1982 he turned down a call to the University of Hamburg. From 1989 to 1991 he was a member of the Senate of the University of Paderborn and from 1990/91 dean of the chemistry department. In 1996 he retired.

From 1996 to 2000 he was chairman of the German Liquid Crystal Society (DFKG) and then an honorary member. 1984 to 1995 he was in the Council (Board of Directors) of the International Liquid Crystal Society. In 1975 he became a corresponding member of the Berlin Scientific Society .

He also published on the history of liquid crystal research and, together with Ludwig Pohl, set up an exhibition on the history of liquid crystals at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Physical Institute) (in 2011 it was in the Liebig Museum in Gießen), the place where liquid crystal pioneer Otto Lehmann worked . He was also the co-editor of an anthology with classic works on liquid crystals.

In 2013 he received the Bunsen Medal . He has been a member of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry since 1957 and a member of its standing committee from 1983 to 1986.

Fonts

  • Editor: Lyotropic Liquid Crystals. Basics, development, application , Darmstadt: Steinkopff 1999.
  • Publisher: Liquid Crystals , Darmstadt: Steinkopff 1994.
  • Edited with Timothy J. Sluckin, David A. Dunmur: Crystals That Flow: Classic Papers from the History of Liquid Crystals , CRC Press / Taylor and Francis 2004.
  • with H.-R. Stegemeyer: The apparently living liquid crystals, Nachr. Chemie, Volume 52, 2004, pp. 903-908.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Stegemeyer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist (physical chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover