Theodor Förster (physical chemist)

Theodor Förster (born May 15, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 20, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German physical chemist .

Theodor Förster received his doctorate from Erwin Madelung in 1933 with a thesis on the polarization of electrons through reflection at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In the same year he joined the NSDAP and the SA . After completing his habilitation, he became a lecturer in Leipzig in 1940. Following his research and teaching activities in Leipzig , he became a full professor at the University of Posen in 1942 . From 1947 to 1951 he worked at what was then the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen before he was appointed professor at the TU Stuttgart . In 1950 he was appointed "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society, after moving to Stuttgart he was an "External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society until his death.

His contribution to the understanding (1946) of fluorescence resonance energy transfer ( Förster resonance energy transfer , FRET) is one of his greatest achievements .

The Förster radius is also named after Theodor Förster . The Photochemistry Section of the Society of German Chemists , together with the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry , announces the Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture "for outstanding work in the field of photochemistry" every two years .

Works

Förster, Theodor: Fluorescence of organic compounds. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1950. - Unchanged. Reprint d. 1st ed., In the literature catalog. supplemented by later publication d. Author. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982 - ISBN 3-525-42312-8

literature

Albert Weller : Obituary for Theodor Förster. In: Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry 78 (1974) p. 969 [with portrait].
George Porter: Some reflections on the work of Theodor Förster. In: Die Naturwissenschaften 63 (1976) 5, pp. 207-211.
Albert Weller: In memoriam Theodor Förster , in: EPA-Newsletter 1980, contains a list of Förster's publications online, PDF

Individual evidence

↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Theodor Förster at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 158.
^ Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - dates and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers AL ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), here pages 291–292 (chronology of the institute).

personal data
SURNAME	Forester, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1974
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] raphical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Theodor Förster at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th

[Klee158-2] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 158.

[3] Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - dates and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers AL ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), here pages 291–292 (chronology of the institute).