Konrad Georg Weil

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Konrad Georg Weil (born November 27, 1927 in Berlin ; † May 14, 2009 in Rohrbach ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Weil received his doctorate in 1953 from Ulrich Frowald Franck in Göttingen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (with a dissertation on the growth of the passive layer on iron), completed his habilitation in Darmstadt in 1964 and was professor of electrochemistry at the TH Darmstadt from 1971 to 1993 .

He dealt with the structure and formation of thin layers and clusters of salts and metals and developed highly sensitive measuring instruments for this. He also dealt with the miscibility of liquids with different solubility of electrolytes .

In 1986 he received the Bunsen Medal . From 1965 he published the reports of the Bunsen Society for over 25 years . In retirement he bred horses.

Rainer Waser is one of his doctoral students .

literature

  • Rainer Waser, Harm Wiese: Konrad Georg Weil on his 65th birthday . In: Reports of the Bunsen Society , Volume 96 (11), 1992, p. 1785 doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19920961153
  • Walter Jaenicke: 100 years of the Bunsen Society . Steinkopff 1994, p. 226, ISBN 978-3-642-93681-4

Individual evidence

  1. life data according to the Bunsen price