Rudolf E. Kaiser

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Rudolf Ernst Kaiser (born February 12, 1930 in Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia ; † August 6, 2021 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German analytical chemist and founder and head of the Institute for Chromatography in Bad Dürkheim.

Life

In 1954, Kaiser completed a chemistry degree at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Leipzig with a doctorate. rer. nat. After he had been transferred to the division of separation technologies at the German Academy of Sciences , he nevertheless preferred to leave the GDR in 1960 and start over in the FRG. He joined BASF in Ludwigshafen, where he developed gas chromatography as a separation process in analytical chemistry. During his initial work, Kaiser established capillary gas chromatography. To further research analytical separation techniques, he founded the Institute for Chromatography in Bad Dürkheim in 1972, which he also headed. Kaiser received a professorship from LAMAR University in Beaumont , Texas, USA.

Rudolf E. Kaiser was married to Olga Kaiser for the second time, with whom he jointly ran the Institute for Chromatography.

Institute for Chromatography

One focus of research and teaching at the institute is the discovery and reduction of systematic errors . Another concern is the environmental friendliness of the analytical methods used, for example by avoiding harmful solvents .

Publications

  • Gas Phase Chromatography, Vol. 2 Capillary Chromatography. RE Kaiser - Mannheim, Bibliographical Institute, 1975.
  • Separation cassettes in gas chromatography - Bad Dürkheim: Institute for Chromatography, 1975.
  • Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography 1981 Hindelang. Ed. RE Kaiser - Heidelberg: Hüthig, 1981.
  • Optimization in HPLC. RE Kaiser ( correct evaluation ), E. Oelrich ( separation cassettes for HPLC ) - Heidelberg, Hüthig, 1979 (EN: 1981).
  • Introduction to High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography, HPDC. Ed. RE Kaiser - Bad Dürkheim: Institute for Chromatography, 1976.
  • Introduction to HPPLC (high pressure planar liquid chromatography) - Heidelberg: Hüthig, 1987.
  • Introduction to analysis of variance and round robin tests. Günter Gottschalk, RE Kaiser - Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut, 1976.
  • Elementary tests for assessing measurement data - Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut, 1983.

Magazines

Kaiser founded or was involved in the founding of the following specialist journals:

  • Chromatographia (since 1968), now: Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden.
  • Journal of High Resolution Chromatography and Chromatography Communication (since 1978), now: Journal of Separation Science , Wiley-VCH Verlag , Weinheim.
  • Journal of Planar Chromatography (since 1988), now JPC (Modern TLC), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest.

Symposia

RE Kaiser initiated the following series of symposia:

  • International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (since 1975, first in Hindelang, now in Riva del Garda).
  • International Symposium on Planar Chromatography (since 1980, first in Bad Dürkheim, now in Budapest).
  • International Symposium on Chromatography and Spectroscopy in Environmental Analysis (since 1994 in St. Petersburg).

Awards

  • 1978 Tswett Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR.
  • 1988 Gold Medal from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • 1989 Archer JP Martin Award, Brighton, UK.
  • 1989 Marcel Golay Award, Riva del Garda, Italy.
  • 1995 Tswett Medal of the Chromatographic Society of Russia.
  • 1996 Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany for services in environmental analysis and in international scientific contacts.
  • 2010 Clemens Winkler Medal of the Analytical Chemistry Section of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh).

literature

  • Journal of Chromatography Library Vol 17, 75 years of chromatography - a historical dialogue, Chapter 20, pages 187–192: Rudolf E. Kaiser, Elsevier 1979.
  • Journal of Chromatography Library Vol 64, Chromatography, a Century of Discovery 1900-2000, Chapter 5, pages 290-291: Rudolf E. Kaiser, Elsevier 2001.
  • Chromatographia 2010, 71, February, Editorial by Hartmut Frank: Rudolf E. Kaiser: A Tribute to a Living Legend in Separation Science.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notices of Rudolf E. Kaiser | Mourning & Remembrance. Retrieved August 15, 2021 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Rudolf E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaiser, Rudolf Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist with an analytical specialization
BIRTH DATE February 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Bad Dürkheim