Klaus Doerffel

Klaus Doerffel (* July 30, 1925 ; † 1995 ) was a German analytical chemist who published numerous books and papers on statistics in analytical chemistry and on optimal strategies in chemical analysis.

Life

Klaus Doerffel went to school in Freiberg between 1936 and 1946 . After leaving school, he first learned the job of a laboratory assistant and then studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig , where he graduated in 1951. In 1954 he received his doctorate at the Freiberg Mining Academy with a thesis on "The system of ion energies: An approximation method for calculating lattice energies".

From 1956 he conducted research at what was then the Technical University of Carl Schorlemmer in Merseburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1961 with a thesis on the direct spectrochemical analysis of non-conductive powdery substances. In 1967 he was appointed professor at the TH Merseburg. In 1966 he published his first book "Statistics in Analytical Chemistry", which was subsequently widely distributed. The book was based on a work in Fresenius' Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie from 1962. In 1990 the fifth edition of this book was published. In 1981 he wrote the book “Optimal strategies in analytics” together with Karel Eckschlager (Prague). He was also the lead author of the volume “ Analytikum ”, a standard work in the GDR and beyond.

About fifty students wrote a doctoral or diploma thesis with him. In total, he published around 200 original papers and book chapters. Fresenius Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie dedicated an issue to him and Heinrich Kriegsmann for his 70th birthday in 1995.

Doerffel was married and lived in Leipzig. Because of his non-membership in the SED, Doerffel was unable to travel to what was then known as the non-socialist foreign country. However, lecture tours took him to Cuba , Bulgaria , what was then Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union .

Prizes and awards (selection)

1989 Fresenius Prize from the Society of German Chemists

Publications (selection)

Statistics in analytical chemistry , 5th expanded and revised edition, Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00557-2 , first edition 1966, also West German edition, 4th edition, VCH-Verlag, Weinheim 1987, ISBN 3-527-26622-4 .
(with Karel Eckschlager): Optimal strategies in analytics , Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1981
(Collective of authors, lead authors Doerffel and Rudolf Geyer): Analytikum: Methods of analytical chemistry and its theoretical foundations , 7th revised edition, Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie Leipzig 1987.

literature

Heinz W. Zwanziger, Iain L. Marr, Helmut Müller: (Editorial) An appreciation of Professor (Emeritus) Dr. Klaus Doerffel , in: Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry 352: 403-404 (1995).

Web links

Literature by and about Klaus Doerffel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ see year of death in the data of the German National Library
↑ "... and there cannot be many laboratories in German speaking countries which do not posses a copy of his little yellow book on" Statistics in der analytischen Chemie "(1966).", In: Zwanziger et al., See Ref.
^ Entry of the "special issue" in the German National Library
↑ see brief laudation by Heinrich Nöth in Fresenius Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie (1989) 335: 175
↑ A review of the third edition from 1984 can be found in: Lothar Jaenicke : Statistics in der Analytischen Chemie , Weinheim 1984 (review), in: Die Naturwissenschaften 72 (1985), page 497. In the otherwise very positive review, only the " strange "selection of further literature that requires a glossary of German-English-Russian.

personal data
SURNAME	Doerffel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German analytical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1925
DATE OF DEATH	1995

[1] see year of death in the data of the German National Library

[2] "... and there cannot be many laboratories in German speaking countries which do not posses a copy of his little yellow book on" Statistics in der analytischen Chemie "(1966).", In: Zwanziger et al., See Ref.

[3] Entry of the "special issue" in the German National Library

[4] see brief laudation by Heinrich Nöth in Fresenius Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie (1989) 335: 175

[5] A review of the third edition from 1984 can be found in: Lothar Jaenicke : Statistics in der Analytischen Chemie , Weinheim 1984 (review), in: Die Naturwissenschaften 72 (1985), page 497. In the otherwise very positive review, only the " strange "selection of further literature that requires a glossary of German-English-Russian.