Werner Luck

Werner Albrecht Paul Luck (born April 3, 1922 in Berlin , † 2008 in Berlin), known as Werner AP Luck , was a German chemist and university professor.

Live and act

Werner Luck attended the state Luisenrealgymnasium in Berlin until 1939 , where he received his school-leaving certificate prematurely at the end of 1939 because he was called up for military service. From 1942 to 1945 he was a physics student in the student company of the Army Weapons Office . In 1945 he received his physics diploma for his work on the subject of contributions to the spectral permeability of cloudy media . In 1946 he was released from British captivity and was from 1947 to 1952 at the University of Tübingen assistant at the Physico-Chemical Institute, where he received his doctorate in 1951 with spectroscopic studies of bromine and iodine vapors under Gustav Kortüm . From 1952 to 1970 he worked in the main laboratory of BASF in Ludwigshafen, from 1958 he was group leader there. In 1968 he completed his habilitation in physical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg on hydrogen bonds. In 1970, as successor to Hans Kuhn , he was appointed full professor at the Physico-Chemical Institute at the University of Marburg , a position that he held until his retirement in 1990. During this period, Luck was dean of the physical chemistry department in 1972/73 and 1982/83.

From 1978 to 1991 Luck was the chairman of the DECHEMA working committee for the industrial extraction of freshwater from the sea . In 1966 he founded the Society for Responsibility in Science. V. , the German-speaking branch of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (SSRS). Luck was its chairman for many years and later honorary chairman (from 2002).

Awards

1987 Eötvös Medal from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest
1993 honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven Belgium
1993 Max Born Medal of the Society for Responsibility in Science

Web links

Hubertus Kleeberg: Interactions of Water in Ionic and Nonionic Hydrates . Proceedings of a Symposium in honor of the 65th birthday of WAP Luck. Springer Verlag, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 978-3-540-17846-0 ( limited preview [accessed March 29, 2020]).

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Albrecht Paul Luck. In: prabook.com. August 1, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 77 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Erich Knözinger, Otto Schrems: Werner Luck . In: Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry . tape 91 , no. 4 , April 1987, pp. 257-259 , doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19870910402 .
↑ Werner AP Luck: Homo investigans . The social scientist. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 978-3-7985-0458-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on March 29, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Luck, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Luck, Werner Albrecht Paul (full name); Luck, Werner AP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	2008
Place of death	Berlin

[prabook-1] Werner Albrecht Paul Luck. In: prabook.com. August 1, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020 .

[Uni_Marburg-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 77 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .

[BBPC-3] Erich Knözinger, Otto Schrems: Werner Luck . In: Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry . tape 91 , no. 4 , April 1987, pp. 257-259 , doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19870910402 .

[HI-4] Werner AP Luck: Homo investigans . The social scientist. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 978-3-7985-0458-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on March 29, 2020]).