Rudolf Nitsche

Rudolf Karl Stephan Nitsche (born October 28, 1922 in Lannesdorf , † April 1, 1996 in Buchenbach ) was a German physical chemist , crystallographer and university professor.

Life

Nitsche spent his childhood in The Hague , Holland, until 1938 . He received his school leaving certificate in 1940 from the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium in Eisenach . After the Reich Labor Service (1940) and military service (1940–1945) he studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1951 he was a student of Klaus Schäfer with a thesis entitled "On a connection between the energy transport of metallic surfaces and the catalytic decomposition of ethane" doctorate . From 1951 to 1954 he worked in the United States in the research laboratory of the DuPont company . After working for Siemens in Erlangen and the RCA Laboratories in Zurich , he completed his habilitation in 1967 at the ETH Zurich with the thesis "Crystal growth from the gas phase through chemical transport reactions". In 1968 he was offered the chair for crystallography at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Until his retirement in 1988, Nitsche was director of the Institute for Crystallography at the University of Freiburg.

Nitsche was a founding member in 1970 and from 1978 to 1981 chairman of the German Society for Crystal Growth and Crystal Growth (DGKK). He was a member of the “Crystals” committee at the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT), and from 1982 he became chairman of the BMFT's “Crystal Growth under Space Conditions” committee.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nitsche, Rudolf (1922-1996), crystallograph. kipnis.de, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ DGKK-Mitteilungsblatt No. 100 / 2015. (PDF) German Society for Crystal Growth and Crystal Growth . V., accessed on September 6, 2019 .