Ulrich Grigull

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Grave of Ulrich Grigull in the forest cemetery in Munich-Solln

Ulrich Grigull (born March 12, 1912 in Gallingen , East Prussia , † October 20, 2003 in Munich ) was a German engineer and technical thermodynamicist .

Life

Ulrich Grigull is the son of the pastor Wilhelm Grigull and his wife Anna, nee. Wormite. After graduating from high school in Königsberg i. Pr. Studied Grigull 1930 mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Gdansk , was famous at a time when Danzig for its engineering. There he became a member of the Association of German Students (VDSt) . He heard thermodynamics , heat transfer and fluid mechanics from Ernst Schmidt , a scientist recognized worldwide in this field . After graduating as an engineer, he began his scientific career in 1936 as Schmidt's assistant at the chair for technical thermodynamics. In 1937 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Braunschweig with a thesis on film condensation and married Lydia Freiheit. Their two children are called Barbara and Andrea. From 1937 to 1942 Ulrich Grigull then worked at the Research Institute for Aviation in Braunschweig. From 1942 he was in the Navy.

During the Second World War he was an officer in the Kriegsmarine and chief engineer on submarines and destroyers until 1945 . After the war, he first worked as an engineer and consultant for various companies in the chemical and textile industries, was director of a company for the manufacture of insulating material and from 1953 to 1960 took a position at the Bayer AG paint factory in Leverkusen, where he also lectured at the Technical University of Braunschweig was.

In 1961 he was appointed to succeed Ernst Schmidt at the Institute for Thermodynamics at the Technical University of Munich . There he worked as a full professor and institute director. 1972 to 1976 he was rector of the Technical University of Munich and then its president until 1980. He retired in 1981. He was co-founder and, until his death, co-editor of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Pergamon Press) and co-founder of the magazine Wärme und Stoffübendung (Springer Verlag). 1982–1986 he was President of the ICHMT ( International Center for Heat Mass Transfer ) and also President of IAPWS ( International Association for the properties of water and steam ).

Grigull was both experimental and theoretical. He was one of the pioneers in the study of heat transfer through liquid metals and an internationally recognized expert on the thermodynamic properties of water vapor, on which he published the standard work water vapor tables. In 1954 his standard work Basic Laws of Heat Transfer appeared in the 1st edition, which was translated into numerous languages. He also developed new optical measurement methods for convective heat transport. After his retirement, he dealt intensively with the history of science (including Fahrenheit, Nusselt and Newton's cooling laws ). He had been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1975 and chairman of its Kepler Commission. The Brunswick Scientific Society he belonged since 1978 as a corresponding member.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • with Heinrich Sandner: Heat conduction. Springer 1979, 1990 (English Heat Conduction , Springer 1984).
  • with Sigmund Erk, Heinrich Gröber: The basic laws of heat transfer. Springer, 1954; 3rd edition 1963; Reprints 1981, 1988 (Russian 1958; English Fundamentals of Heat Transfer , McGraw Hill, 3rd edition 1961; Japanese 1963).
  • Temperature equalization in simple bodies. 1964.
  • with Werner Hauf, Franz Mayinger: Optical measurement methods of heat and mass transfer , Springer 1991.
  • Technical thermodynamics. Göschen Collection, De Gruyter, 1966 (Turkish 1970); 3rd edition 1977.
  • with Klaus Scheffler, Johannes Straub: Wasserdampftafeln . Springer 1981.
  • with Ernst Schmidt: Properties of water and steam in SI units. Springer, 3rd edition 1981.
  • with Johannes Straub, Peter Schiebener: Steam Tables in SI units , 2nd edition Springer 1984.
  • 60 years of the Johannes Kepler Commission , session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Beck 1996.
  • Newton's law of cooling - comment on a work by Newton from 1701 . Munich, publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1979.

literature

  • Who is who? The German who's who. Founded by Walter Habel. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. 24th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-2005-0 , p. 407.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Lt. DNB 1941, not 1937, about heat transfer during condensation with a turbulent water skin . Lt. Who is who? The German who's who. 1985 not 1937, but 1943.
  3. ↑ Who is who? The German who's who. 1985, p. 407.
personal data
SURNAME Grigull, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German thermodynamicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallingen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2003
Place of death Munich