Robert Haul

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Robert Haul (born May 31, 1912 in Hamburg , † January 16, 2000 in Hanover ) was a German physical chemist and university professor.

Life

Robert Haul studied chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In the summer semester of 1931 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia-Hercynia . From 1937 to 1945 he was a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1938 he was at the Technical University of Berlin to Dr.-Ing. PhD. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in Prague with Johann Böhm . From 1943 to 1945 he taught physical chemistry as a private lecturer at the German Technical University in Prague.

After the Second World War , he was initially a visiting scientist at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg . In 1947 he qualified as a professor at the University of Hamburg for general chemistry. With retroactive effect from October 1, 1946 to May 11, 1954, he was scientific assistant for inorganic chemistry at the Chemical State Institute Hamburg. For the winter semester of 1949 he took a leave of absence and moved to the South African National Chemical Research Laboratory in Pretoria .

In 1956 he returned to Germany, initially as an associate professor and from 1962 as a full professor at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Bonn . In 1964 he was appointed to the chair for physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the University of Hanover as the successor to Rudolf Suhrmann . As a result of the expansion of the teaching staff initiated by Haul, the chair for physical and electrochemistry was split into a chair for cluster chemistry , which he held until his retirement in 1978, and a chair for solid-state chemistry , to which the later Nobel Prize winner Gerhard Ertl was appointed.

His scientific work focused on solid-state research, catalytic processes and the reaction of atoms on solid-state surfaces of oxides, along with the determination of the adsorption kinetics necessary to describe these processes and reactions .

His postdoctoral qualifications included the later professors and chair holders Bruno Boddenberg, chair of physical chemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund (1977–2003), Thomas Dorfmüller, chair of physical chemistry at Bielefeld University (1973–1993), Wolfgang Göpel, chair of physical chemistry Chemistry at the University of Tübingen (1983–1999), and Hasso Moesta, Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Saarbrücken (1970–1991). From 1972 he was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Fonts

  • The oxidation of iron aerosols, 1938
  • Measurement of the surface diffusion of adsorbed molecules. In: Angewandte Chemie, 62nd year, pp. 10–16, 1950
  • Deuterium exchange between hydrogen and liquid ammonia with potassium amide as a catalyst. In: Chemical engineering technology. 33rd year, 1961
  • Kinetics of isotope exchange between hydrogen and liquid ammonia on heterogeneous catalysts. In: Journal of catalysis. Vol. 1, 1962
  • Self-diffusion in liquid ammonia. In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, 1964
  • The portrait: Friedrich Berguis (1884–1949). In: Chemistry in our time, Volume 19, Issue 2, pp. 59-67, April 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweiger Seniors Convent in the WSC, Teutonia-Hercynia, No. 77 . Braunschweig 1990.

literature

  • Manfred Zeidler: Overview of the historical development of physical chemistry in Germany. In: Bunsenmagazin , Issue 2, 2008, May 2008, pp. 83–99

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personal data
SURNAME Haul, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physical chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2000
Place of death Hanover