Walter Noddack
Walter Noddack (born August 17, 1893 in Berlin , † December 7, 1960 in Bamberg ) was a German chemist . Together with his future wife Ida Tacke and Otto Berg , he discovered the element rhenium in 1925 . The simultaneous discovery of the element with atomic number 43, called Masurium by them , was described in the magazine Popular Science as early as 1925 . The discovery of element 43 was officially in doubt; this element was declared safe and known as technetium in 1937 .
In 1931 he and his wife received the Liebig medal from the Society of German Chemists . In 1935 he taught as a full professor of physical chemistry at the University of Freiburg , and from 1941 to 1945 at the University of Strasbourg founded by the National Socialists . From 1947 he worked as a professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg before becoming honorary professor at the University of Erlangen and head of the State Research Institute for Geochemistry in Bamberg in 1957 . In 1937 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Walter Noddack was buried in Bamberg.
literature
- Michael Engel : Noddack, Walter Karl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ). (only genealogical data, the actual article can be found in the online version under Noddack, Ida Eva )
- 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. 438.
- Tilgner, Hans Georg: Research. Search and addiction . Books on Demand. 2000. ISBN 978-3-89811-272-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Noddack in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noddack, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1960 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |