Kurt Meyer (chemist)

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Kurt Meyer , also Johannes Kurt Meyer (born March 31, 1904 in Zwickau , † November 6, 1978 in Wolfen ) was a German chemist. He became known for his work on photochemistry , as an industrial chemist and as chairman of the Chemical Society of the German Democratic Republic .

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Meyer was born the son of a court clerk. After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry at the TH Dresden from 1923–1927 , where he received his doctorate in 1929 as an academic student of Roland Scholl (1865–1945) . Until 1934 he continued to work as Scholl's research assistant in Dresden. His early scientific achievements included the synthesis of corones , a highly condensed aromatic hydrocarbon .

He gained professional experience in the photographic industry since 1934. As early as 1937 he became head of the research laboratory of the Zeiss-Ikon film factory. His research areas included a. optical sensitizers and polarizing films. From 1945 Meyer was chief chemist in the research laboratory of the Socexport-Film color film copier and worked in the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1950 - as part of the deportation of German scientists ( Ossawakim campaign ). He then became the technical center manager of the VEB Filmfabrik in Wolfen , from 1954 he worked there as a department manager. In 1955, Meyer completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1956 he became director of research and development in Wolfen, and at the same time he received a professorship and a teaching position in physical chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 1964 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

1959–1961 Meyer was chairman of the Chemical Society of the German Democratic Republic .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 299, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
  2. ↑ Kurt Meyer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Johannes Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, professor of physical chemistry
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1978
Place of death Wolfen