Kurt Zosel

Kurt Zosel (born October 12, 1913 in Cologne ; † May 22, 1989 ) was a German chemist .

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Kurt Zosel was born the son of the doctor Gustav Zosel and his wife Antonie nee Winter in Cologne-Lindenthal. After graduating from the Reformrealgymnasium in Spiesergasse - the later Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium - he studied physics first at the University of Cologne (1935) and later at the University of Berlin (1937). In 1939 Zosel was drafted as a soldier in the Wehrmacht , wounded and experienced the end of the war in the hospital. After the war he began studying chemistry at RWTH Aachen University (1947), which he graduated with a diploma in 1950. As a doctoral candidate for Karl Ziegler , he then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Even after his doctorate (1952) he remained an employee of the institute, where he took over the management of the test facility in 1955. During his scientific work in 1964, he discovered a new principle for separating mixtures of substances ( destraction ). The Zosel process was used to decaffeinate coffee beans. In 1979, one year after his retirement, Zosel received the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr for his achievements as a researcher .

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• City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1440

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• The carbon dioxide process from Mülheim an der Ruhr