Walther Kangro
Carl Walther Nicolai Kangro (born August 13, 1889 in Riga ; † 1976 ) was a German chemist ( electrochemistry , physical chemistry ) and professor at the TU Braunschweig .
Kangro received his doctorate in physical chemistry in Leipzig in 1914 (dissertation: The Tyndall phenomenon in liquids ) and was there from 1915 an assistant at the Physico-Chemical Institute and later at the TH Hannover . He was head of the Institute for Metallurgical Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. He was then chief engineer at Osram in Berlin from 1923 to 1925 , then in the editorial department of Gmelin until 1927 , before becoming chief engineer at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where he was titular professor in 1930, adjunct professor and director of the Chemical-Metallurgical Institute from 1936 to 1940 . In 1956 he retired.
In 1954 he pioneered the concept of the redox flow battery . Further research was carried out at NASA in the 1970s. They were realized commercially in the 1980s by Maria Skyllas-Kazacos in Australia ( vanadium redox accumulator ). They are used to store energy, for example, in wind turbines and the reserve of cell phone stations.
He is the father of the science historian Hans Kangro .
Fonts
- Applied electrochemistry, Westermann 1965 (with contribution from Max Reck on accumulator batteries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth Degener, Habel, Wer ist Wer?, 1967.
- ↑ Year of death in the University Archives TU Braunschweig, Mourning Matters (pdf).
- ^ Allen Debus, Who's Who in Science, 1968.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kangro, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kangro, Carl Walther Nicolai (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |