Klaus J. Vetter

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Klaus Jürgen Vetter (born July 13, 1916 in Berlin ; † December 12, 1974 ) was a German physical chemist , best known for his contributions to electrode kinetics and for his outstanding monograph on the subject.

Life

Klaus Vetter studied chemistry and physics from 1935. After his chemistry diploma in 1940 at the University of Berlin with Max Bodenstein , he also carried out a doctoral thesis completed in 1941 with Max Bodenstein; In 1941 he also completed his physics degree. After the end of the war, in which he also did military service, he found a job at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1946 ; since then he has worked exclusively as an electrochemist. In the same year he moved to Berlin University as assistant to Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer . In 1948 he went with Bonhoeffer to the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society , where he led a working group. After his habilitation in 1951, Vetter became a professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1961 ; In 1963 he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry. The electrochemists Joachim Walter Schultze (1937–2005) and Waldfried Johannes Ludwig Plieth (* 1937) did their doctorate under Klaus Vetter.

tomb

Cousin was married and had two children. He is buried in the Heerstrasse cemetery.

Main work

Vetter's main work is his monograph "Electrochemical Kinetics" from 1961, which was published in 1967 in translated and expanded English and Russian editions. It is considered the climax and also the preliminary conclusion of this branch of research.

Honors

In 1953, together with Heinz Gerischer , Vetter received the Bodenstein-Haber-Nernst Prize, which was awarded for the first time. From 2000 to 2008, the German Chemical Society , DECHEMA and the International Society of Electrochemistry jointly awarded the Klaus Jürgen Vetter Prize every two years.

literature

  • Heinz Gerischer, obituary Klaus J. Vetter : Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Volume 79, Issue 2, February 1975, pages 113-115, doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19750790202
  • Lothar Dunsch: The historical development of electrochemistry , January 18, 2006
  • AK Shukla, T. Prem Kumar: Pillars of Modern Electrochemistry , The Electrochemical Society Interface, 2008, ( PDF ; 1.5 MB)
  • Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter Hoffmann, Bretislav Friedrich: One hundred years at the interface of chemistry and physics: The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society between 1911 and 2011 , De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3- 11-219043-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the winners of the Klaus Jürgen Vetter Prize  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / bunsen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Vetter, Klaus J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vetter, Klaus Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1974