Walther Kern

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Walther Kern (* December 18, 1900 in Sprockhövel ; † February 7, 1965 there ) was a German pharmacist and university professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Kern studied pharmacy from 1920 to 1924 at the University of Jena , the University of Kiel and the TH Braunschweig . He passed his pharmaceutical state examination in 1924 at the University of Kiel. In 1930 he received his doctorate in engineering. From 1930 to 1939 Kern was a lecturer and head of department at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig and from 1939 to 1945 associate professor and director of the Institute for Applied Pharmacy at the Technical University of Braunschweig. After 1945, Kern worked as a freelance scientist and from 1951 in the Dr. Cordes works in Bochum. Since the fifties he was active in the scientific working group of the pharmacists' chambers of North Rhine, Westphalia-Lippe and Rhineland-Palatinate. He retired in 1959.

meaning

Kern contributed to the development of pharmaceutical technology in Germany through his work and the establishment of an institute for applied pharmacy at the TH Braunschweig . Kern knew how to combine the pharmaceutical and galenic experience with modern knowledge of chemistry and physics. With his work he designed the 3rd supplement to the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB 6). A highlight of his scientific work was the publication of the 2nd supplementary volume of Hager's Handbook of Pharmaceutical Practice (1958).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Society for the History of Pharmacy : Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy eV . Ed .: Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz. New follow-up edition. tape 55 . Knowledge Verl.-Ges, Stuttgart January 1, 1953, p. 234 ( dnb.de [accessed on March 16, 2017]).
  2. ↑ International Society for the History of Pharmacy : Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy e. V. Ed .: Wolfgang-Hagen Hein. New follow-up edition. tape 55 . Knowledge Verl.-Ges, Stuttgart January 1, 1953, p. 234 ( dnb.de [accessed on March 16, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprockhövel
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1965
Place of death Sprockhövel