Robert Schnurmann

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Robert Schnurmann (born August 2, 1904 in Stuttgart , † April 1, 1995 ) was a German-British chemist.

Life and activity

Schnurmann was a son of the businessman Jacob Schnurmann and his wife Elsa, nee. Frank. In his childhood Schnurmann attended pre-school, a reform school in Heidehof in Stuttgart and the Reformrealgymnasium in Stuttgart, which he left at Easter 1922 with the final exam.

From the summer semester of 1922, Schnurmann studied at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Heidelberg. He spent the winter semester 1922/1923 at the University of Frankfurt, where he dealt with physics, chemistry and mathematics, before moving to Göttingen in the summer semester 1923. Schnurmann received his doctorate in 1927 with a thesis on space charges in electrolytes supervised by Alfred Coehn . He then worked at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen.

From 1930 to 1933 Schnurmann was Otto Stern's assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at Hamburg University.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Schnurmann was dismissed from civil service on July 31, 1933 in accordance with the provisions of the law on the restoration of the civil service due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent.

In 1935 Schnurmann found a job at the Institut de physique de l'Ecole technique supérieure Royale in Stockholm. In 1937 he moved to the Physical Chemistry Laboratory in Cambridge. He then worked from 1939 to 1942 for the Research Laboratory of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company in Derby.

After his emigration, Schnurmann was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police. In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they would be succeeded by the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

From 1943 to 1956, Schnurmann was chief physicist at the Physics Department of Mamcnehster Oil Refinery Ltd. He later worked for Esso Research Ltd. employed in Abingdon in Berks.

From 1963 Schnurmann taught as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. In 1975 he retired.

In 197 Schnurmann became an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham

Fonts

  • Free space charges in electrolytes , 1927.
  • On the Size of Gas Bubbles in Liquids , 1943.

family

Schnurmann married Aina Ingeborg Nordqvist on December 22, 1938 in Derby.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Schnurmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Schnurmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1995