Luise Holzapfel

Luise Holzapfel (born March 14, 1900 in Höxter , Weser ; † September 21, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and later head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Institute for Silicate Research .

Life

After graduating from the private school in Kirstein, Berlin-Charlottenburg , and spending almost two years at the Viktoria-Pensionat, Karlsruhe , she passed the Abitur in 1929 after a year of evening grammar school in Berlin. In 1929/1930 she began studying chemistry , physics , technology and economics at the University of Berlin , which she completed in 1936 with a doctorate “On the photochemical combustion of carbon oxide”. From 1936 to 1939 she researched with the help of various scholarships at the Physico-Chemical Institute of the University of Berlin and completed her habilitation in chemistry in 1943 at the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Berlin on the "organic silica compound". The following year she was appointed lecturer in chemistry. From 1950 she worked as a private lecturer at the TU Berlin . From 1939 she was a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research in Berlin. From 1942 to 1944 she was in charge of the “Silicic Acid” project, and in June 1945 she was appointed head of department. In 1962 this department was closed for economic reasons and it was given early retirement. After a serious illness, she died in Berlin in 1963.

Luise Holzapfel dealt with photochemistry , X-ray kinetics , cryolysis , the silicon chemistry of special organic silicic acid compounds and silicosis .

literature

• Exhibition at TU Berlin, December 1999.
• Exhibition at HU Berlin December 1999 to January 2000.
• Annette Vogt: Special talent of the post- doctoral candidate - the scientist Luise Holzapfel (1900–1963) . In: Berlinische Monatsschrift 9, 2000, 3, ISSN  0944-5560 , pp. 80-86.
• Annette Vogt : From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08881-7 , ( Pallas Athene 17).
• Annette Vogt : Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. A-Z . 2nd expanded edition. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-927579-12-5 , ( publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society 12), pp. 82–83.
• Annette Vogt : “Special talent of the post- doctoral candidate” . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 3, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 80-86 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Web links

• Biography of Luise Holzapfel
• Klaus Beneke: Luise Holzapfel (03/14/1900 Höxter / Weser - 09/21/1963 Berlin) Lecturer in chemistry, as well as on the history of "ringing" gels and gel crystallization (extensive text about Holzapfel and their work) (PDF; 3 , 9 MB)