Paul Hagenmuller
Paul Hagenmuller (born August 3, 1921 in Strasbourg ; † January 7, 2017 ) was a French chemist . He was considered the father of solid-state chemistry in France and head of a school at the University of Bordeaux .
Hagenmuller began his studies in Strasbourg in 1940, but avoided the German occupation with the rest of the university in Clermont-Ferrand and was in the Resistance. In 1943 he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp and then as a forced laborer to the Dora camp in the Harz Mountains, where the V2 was manufactured. After the war he resumed his study of chemistry again, did research for the CNRS , was an assistant in Paris and was in Paris in 1950 when André Chrétien doctorate .
After his habilitation in 1953, he taught at the universities in Hanoi and Saigon, from 1956 as professor at the University of Rennes and from 1960 professor for inorganic chemistry in Bordeaux. There he organized a conference on transition metal oxides in 1964, which brought solid-state physicists, chemists and crystallographers together. In his research he attached great importance to close links to industrial applications. 1974 to 1985 he was director of the laboratory for solid state chemistry of the CNRS in Bordeaux. In 1994 he retired.
In his laboratory he synthesized many compounds of transition metals to study their electrical and magnetic properties and their relationship to their respective structure. He contributed to the understanding of the metal-insulator transition and applied his research, for example, to the development and manufacture of luminophores and highly reactive elemental boron.
In 1975 he became a member of the Leopoldina . On January 23, 1978, Hagenmuller was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . In the same year he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann memorial coin . On his 80th birthday in 2001 he was honored with a special issue from Solid State Chemistry.
The French chemist Jean Rouxel, who died in 1998, was one of his students .
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Web links
- Portrait at the Dibner Institute
- Interview, French, 2001
- Members of the predecessor academies: Paul Hagenmuller. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 1, 2015 .
- Profile on the website of the Académie des Sciences
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of the University of Bordeaux (French) accessed on December 26, 2017
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Paul Hagenmuller at academictree.org, accessed on February 8 2018th
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Paul Hagenmuller at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on September 23, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagenmuller, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2017 |