Robert Schwankner

Robert Josef Schwankner (born September 16, 1958 in Traunstein ) is a German chemist . Since 1989 he has been Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Radioecology at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich .

biography

Schwankner was the national winner of the Jugend forscht competition in the field of biology , plant physiology (tracer studies) in 1975. From 1977 to 1983 he studied chemistry and history of natural sciences at the LMU and the Technical University of Munich , as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , WASAG - Foundation and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie .

Schwankner completed his diploma in 1983 on radioecology and neutron activation analysis (NAA) of plutonium species with Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker and Fritz Weigel (first preparer of elementary promethium , Z = 61) at the research reactor of the Technical University of Munich . From 1983 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at LMU Munich and obtained his doctorate in 1986 under the later Nobel Prize winner Gerhard Ertl in " Surface and Catalysis Chemistry ". He dealt with the synergistic, structure-forming phenomena of CO oxidation at the platinum contact.

As a conservator, Schwankner was head of the Kerschensteiner College of the German Museum in Munich and, until he was called away, head of the chemistry departments as the successor to Otto Krätz and the nuclear physics department there .

He then became a consultant for radiation protection and radioecology at the Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Issues in Munich.

His research focuses on nuclear measurement technology and radioecology as well as didactics and the history of natural sciences . Since 1976 he has been a member of the federal and state jury of the Jugend forscht competition in the fields of chemistry and biology. Schwankner is the author of numerous scientific works as well as a number of monographs and educational film sequences.

Schwankner is a permanent employee of the Helmholtz Center Munich / Neuherberg , Institute for Radiation Protection, the KIT Karlsruhe , Training Center for Technology and Environment (FTU) and the State Academy for Training and Personnel Development at Schools rAöR , Comburg / Schwäbisch Hall.

Robert Schwankner is married and has two sons.

Work areas

Residual light phenomena (radio and triboluminescence)
Radio analysis of Z = 94 plutonium, Z = 86/88 radon / radium and NORM materials
Weakly electric fish as bio-indicators
Public Understanding of Science: Activation and professionalization of science-didactic communication between universities, schools, industry and society
Curricular innovation research: Development of new areas from research, science and technology for teaching, especially in the field of applied nuclear physics and chemistry
Development of materials for seminar teaching: textbooks and internship books, teaching materials, training experiments
Nationwide management and establishment of and participation in specialist courses in radiation protection for the professional groups of engineers, doctors, natural scientists and teachers (since 1977 with over 150 courses at 6 course centers)
Transfer of research results to specialist conferences and for supraregional teacher training (approx. 12 per year)
Courses for teacher training at home and abroad (approx. 3 per year)

Awards

1979: Arthur Friedrich Memorial Prize for Chemistry Didactics
1994: Prize for experimental lectures from the Association for the Promotion of Mathematical and Natural Science Education MNU (Bremerhaven)

Publications

Robert Schwankner is the author of over 100 scientific publications in international journals as well as around a dozen textbooks for universities and studies (see web links). The main areas of his research are applied nuclear physics and chemistry as well as history and didactics of the natural sciences

Books (selection):

Laser Applications in Experimental Chemistry: An Internship. Preface by Heinrich Nöth . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-446-12576-0 .
Radiochemistry internship: Introduction to the core and radiochemical basic internship (= Uni-Taschenbücher . Vol. 1068). Preface by Fritz Strassmann . Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-506-99316-X .
Radiochemistry in the experiment (= GSF report, K. Vol. 86). Society for Radiation and Environmental Research, Neuherberg 1980.
with Markus Eiswirth : Topics on solid state chemistry . 2 volumes. Aulis, Cologne 1984/1989, ISBN 3-7614-0709-2 , ISBN 3-7614-1009-3 .

with Markus Eiswirth: Laser projection chemistry . Aulis, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7614-0852-8 .

Area of existence and modulation of an oscillating reaction: CO oxidation at the Pt (100) contact [Pt contact]. 1986 (Dissertation, University of Munich, 1986).

with Franz Bukatsch, Otto Paul Krätz, Günther Probeck: That's how interesting chemistry is. Aulis, Cologne 1987; 2nd, revised edition 1997, ISBN 3-7614-1477-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Robert Josef Schwankner et al .: Uranium as a colored body in glasses and glazes: Radiant treasures. In: Physics in Our Time . Vol. 36, H. 4 (September 2005), pp. 160-167, doi: 10.1002 / piuz.200501073 , here p. 167 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Schwankner, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schwankner, Robert Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Traunstein

[1] Robert Josef Schwankner et al .: Uranium as a colored body in glasses and glazes: Radiant treasures. In: Physics in Our Time . Vol. 36, H. 4 (September 2005), pp. 160-167, doi: 10.1002 / piuz.200501073 , here p. 167 ( online ).