Manfred Zeidler (chemist)

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Manfred Zeidler (born September 25, 1935 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ; † November 14, 2016 in Vaals ) was a German chemist .

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After graduating from the Wilhelm-Hittorf-Gymnasium in Münster / Westphalia, Zeidler studied chemistry at the Westphalian Wilhelms University there . He went to Chicago on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1958 and received a Master of Science degree from DePaul University in 1961 . In 1963, he did his doctorate with Hermann Gerhard Hertz at the University of Münster with the topic " Nuclear magnetic relaxation time measurements on diamagnetic electrolyte solutions ". During this time, Zeidler dealt with the investigation of water in the vicinity of inert particles or non-polar groups of molecules, e.g. B. with the microdynamics of water with hydrophobic effects . In 1966 he followed his doctoral supervisor to Karlsruhe at the university there (TH) as an assistant .

In Karlsruhe , Zeidler completed his habilitation in 1973 in the working group led by his doctoral supervisor Hertz with the thesis " Investigation of molecular movement processes in liquids by nuclear resonance and neutron spectroscopy ". In particular, he worked in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance , especially its relaxation processes , the mechanisms of which he carried out theoretical and experimental investigations. Research with neutron scattering at the newly built high-flux reactor in Grenoble made it possible to obtain new information on the molecular orientations in the liquid phase. From 1973 to 1978 he was a lecturer in Karlsruhe at the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the University.

From 1978 to 1980 he returned to Münster as a chair representative for Werner Müller-Warmuth . In 1979, Zeidler was awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize, and one year later he was appointed to the C4 Chair for Physical Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University . From 1998 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences. After his retirement in September 2000, Manfred Zeidler also dealt in detail with the history of the field of “physical chemistry” in Germany and in 2008 published an overview of its historical development.

Manfred Zeidler published around 110 scientific publications. Two of his students are the German physical chemists Ralf Ludwig and Edme H. Hardy.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice on aachen-gedenken.de
  2. ↑ HG Hertz, MD Zeidler: Nuclear magnetic relaxation time measurements on the question of the hydration of non-polar groups in aqueous solution . In: Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry . tape 68 , no. 8-9 , 1964, pp. 821-837 , doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19640680834 .
  3. ^ Ulrich Schindewolf : 100 Years of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe. (PDF; 109 kB). Bunsen-Magazin, Volume 2, No. 6, 2000, p. 145.
  4. ↑ 100 years. In: Bunsen magazine. Volume 8, No. 4, 2006, p. 91 ff.
  5. ↑ CDG Prize Winner .
  6. ^ MD Zeidler: Overview of the historical development of physical chemistry in Germany. In: Bunsen magazine. No. 3, 2008, p. 83.
personal data
SURNAME Zeidler, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2016
Place of death Vaals