Stephen Brunauer

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Stephen Brunauer (born February 12, 1903 in Budapest , † July 6, 1986 ) was a Hungarian-American chemist who mainly worked in the field of adsorption and chemisorption on surfaces of solids.

life and work

Brunauer spent his youth in Budapest in humble circumstances. The mother was a seamstress and the blind father was unemployed. In 1921 Brunauer emigrated to the United States , where he lived with an uncle. Brunauer studied chemistry at Columbia University , where he received a bachelor's degree as his first academic degree in 1925 . This was followed by a master’s degree in 1929 at George Washington University , where he met Edward Teller .

As a junior scientist, Brunauer worked at the US Department of Agriculture where he worked with Paul Hugh Emmett . In 1930 they published a joint work on ammonia catalysts. From 1933 Brunauer took part in the doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University , where he worked on the adsorption of nitrogen on iron catalysts for the synthesis of ammonia. This work laid the foundation stone that led to the determination of the surface area and finally the BET method .

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Brunauer moved to the US Navy , where he headed the Explosives Development Department. He became known, among other things, for his success in hiring Albert Einstein for a wage of 25 US dollars a day as a consultant for the US Navy.

After the war, he moved to the Portland Cement Association in 1951 , where he became manager of basic research.

In 1965 he began his academic career as chairman of the chemistry department at Clarkson College of Technology , where he also became the first director of the Institute of Colloid and Surface Chemistry . In 1961 he received the Kendall Award from the American Chemical Society . In 1973 Brunauer retired.

Honors

The American Ceramic Society presents the S. Brunauer Award annually in memory of Stephen Brunauer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brunauer, Stephen - Personenlexikon . www.habenlexikon.net. Retrieved November 23, 2009.
  2. ↑ Activated carbon, by Harry Marsh, Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso . books.google.de. Retrieved November 23, 2009.
  3. ^ Cements Division: S. Brunauer Award. American Ceramic Society, accessed October 29, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brunauer, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1986