Klaus Schäfer (physical chemist)
Klaus Wilhelm Schäfer (born August 23, 1910 in Cologne , † July 30, 1984 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry ).
biography
From 1929 Schäfer studied mathematics, physics and physical chemistry in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1936 under Arnold Eucken ( the second virial coefficient of the various modifications of light and heavy hydrogen ). After his habilitation in 1939 ( on the theory of rotational transformations ) he was drafted, but then, due to the influence of Eucken, he was assigned to work important for the war effort and was a private lecturer in Göttingen. In 1946 he was initially only provisional director of the Physico-Chemical Institute at Heidelberg University. He was dean several times and in 1955/56 he was rector of the university.
He mainly dealt with intermolecular forces in gases, liquids and on solid surfaces, both theoretically and experimentally. The values obtained in this way were entered in tables.
In 1947 he was involved in the founding of the German Bunsen Society and was its chairman in 1959/60.
He was co-editor of the Landolt-Börnstein-Tables , the Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie (1952 to 1973), the Angewandte Chemie (1957 to 1962), the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Neue Zusammenarbeit and Topics in Current Chemistry . From 1961 to 1965 he headed the IUPAC Thermodynamics Commission.
In 1948 he became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and in 1962 of the Leopoldina . In 1977 he received the Bunsen commemorative coin .
Fonts
- with A. Eucken: Physical chemistry, a lecture course, Springer 1951, 1964
- Statistical theory of matter, Volume 1: General principles and application to gases, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1960
literature
- Alexander Kipnis: Shepherd, Klaus Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 509 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Klaus Schäfer (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schäfer, Klaus Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1984 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |