Richard Neck
Richard Nacken (born May 4, 1884 in Rheydt , † April 8, 1971 in Oberstdorf ; full name: Richard Wilhelm August Nacken ) was a German mineralogist, crystallographer , petrograph and physical chemist. The neck Kyropoulus procedure is named after him.
Life
Nacken graduated from the Progymnasium in Rheydt and the Gymnasium in Gütersloh . He studied mathematics and science at the University of Tübingen . In 1906/1907 he received his doctorate under Theodor Liebisch at the University of Göttingen . He became a member of the Christian student associations in the Wingolfsbund in Tübingen in 1903 and in Göttingen in 1906 . Nacken followed Liebisch in 1908 to the Mineralogical Institute in Berlin, where he worked as first assistant until 1911.
Then he went as an associate professor for physical-chemical mineralogy and petrography at the University of Leipzig . During this time he married Berta Dreibrodt (1912). In 1914 he was called to the University of Tübingen, in 1918 he became full professor for mineralogy and petrography at the University of Greifswald . From 1921 to 1945 Nacken was director of the Mineralogical Institute at the University of Frankfurt am Main and, from 1936, also director of the gemstone research center he set up in Idar-Oberstein. In 1946 he went to Tübingen, where Nacken stayed until his retirement in 1952. In 1962 Nacken received an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the University of Giessen.
Fonts
- Contributions to cement research , such as investigations on the CaO – SiO 2 –H 2 O system
- Crystal growing (especially quartz and precious stones )
Individual evidence
- ^ Philistine directory of the Göttingen Wingolf. Göttingen 1919, p. 6.
literature
- Gerhard Lehrberger: Neck, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 687 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Schmetzer, H. Albert Gilg, and Elisabeth Vaupel: Synthetic emeralds grown by Richard Nacken in the mid-1920s: properties, growth technique, and historical account . In: Gems & Gemology . tape 52 , no. 4 , 2016, p. 368-392 , doi : 10.5741 / GEMS.52.4.368 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Nacken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Richard Nacken in the Landesbibliographie MV
- Overview of Richard Nacken lectures at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1911 to summer semester 1914)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neck, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nacken, Richard Wilhelm August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheydt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1971 |
| Place of death | Oberstdorf |