Ulrich Schindewolf

Ulrich Schindewolf (born July 14, 1927 in Berlin ; † April 29, 2018 ) was a German chemist .

Life

Ulrich Schindewolf was born in Berlin in 1927 as the son of Otto Heinrich Schindewolf . He studied at the universities in Berlin ( Humboldt University ) and Tübingen and obtained his doctorate at what is now the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen under Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer with an electrochemical thesis. After several years abroad, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Schindewolf finally went to the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center . He completed his habilitation in Karlsruhe and in 1972 was appointed full professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , Institute for Physical Chemistry , Chair for Molecular Physical Chemistry. He retired in 1997.

job

Schindewolf dealt with a variety of work topics:

Electrochemistry ,
Nuclear and radiochemistry ,
Radiation and photochemistry and finally
Nuclear process engineering .

At the Physico-Chemical Institute in Karlsruhe, Schindewolf continued the work he had started at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center on isotope separation , in particular on the enrichment of heavy water, which is based on the catalyzed isotope exchange between technically produced hydrogen and liquid ammonia. In 1974, Schindewolf designed an award-winning process for the detoxification of cyanide waste. It is based on the already by Justus von Liebig -described hydrolysis reaction ( cyanide ⇒ formate and ammonia ) which at elevated temperature very quickly and to completion. He later carried out extensive studies that dealt with the thermodynamic, electrochemical, spectroscopic and kinetic properties of solvated electrons in polar and non-polar solutions.

Publications (selection)

Physical nuclear chemistry , F. Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig, 1959
100 years of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe , in: Bunsen-Magazin 2nd year 6/2000, pp. 138–147 online, PDF

Web links

Literature by and about Ulrich Schindewolf in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage Ulrich Schindewolf , Institute for Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Individual evidence

↑ Eminent chemist at the University of Karlsruhe

personal data
SURNAME	Schindewolf, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 2018

[1] Eminent chemist at the University of Karlsruhe