Martin Trömel

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Martin Trömel (born October 31, 1934 in Berlin ; † October 4, 2017 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German chemist and university lecturer ( inorganic chemistry , solid-state chemistry ). Until his retirement in 2000 he researched and taught at the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Trömel received his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Frankfurt (dissertation: X-ray and electron microscopic examination of magnesium oxides of various origins ). In 1969 he completed his habilitation and in 1971 he became a professor in Frankfurt. His work focused on solid-state chemistry , crystal chemistry and the history of chemistry .

He was involved in teacher training and at the University of Third Age , an educational offer of the Goethe University for senior citizens. He and his colleague Vera Morgenweck-Lambrinos received media attention in the USA and Germany by working through the relationship between Nobel Prize winner Otto Hahn and nuclear physicist Lise Meitner . In several interviews and articles, the two contradicted the presentation of the American professor Ruth Lewin Sime , who suggested in a biography that Otto Hahn had exploited the weakness of his Jewish colleague caused by the persecution by the National Socialists and their emigration to discover nuclear fission for themselves to claim.

He published, among other things, about Goethe and the natural sciences and Isaac Newton , Carolingian astronomy (partly to refute Heribert Illig's theses), and error and myth-making in the natural sciences.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009
  2. ↑ Vera Morgenweck-Lambrinos and Martin Trömel: Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and the nuclear fission: a legend from our days, NTM Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Volume 8, 2000, pp. 65–76, pdf
  3. ↑ Martin Trömel: Otto Hahn and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the distorting mirror of recent criticism . In: Vera Keizer (Ed.): Radiochemistry, diligence and intuition . Publishing house for the history of natural sciences and technology, Diepholz. (will probably be released at the end of July 2018)
  4. ↑ Martin Trömel: "... because after all, I myself helped to trigger this tragedy" Otto Hahn in the field of tension between science and politics. In: forschung-Frankfurt.uni-frankfurt.de. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, March 4, 2004, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Martin Trömel: Sky observation in Carolingian times. At the same time a contribution to the question of the three invented centuries, NTM Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Volume 10, 2002, pp. 156–171
personal data
SURNAME Trömel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2017
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe