Wilhelm Bachmann (chemist)
Wilhelm Eduard Paul Bachmann (born December 28, 1885 in Kassel , † November 27, 1933 in Seelze ) was a German chemist , university professor and researcher in the field of colloid chemistry .
Life
family
Wilhelm Bachmann was the son of the teacher Wilhelm Friedrich Bachmann (* 1834) and Katharine Wilhelmine Auguste , née Wagner, who worked at the girls' school in Kassel . His grandparents were among others the schoolteacher Ditmar Bachmann (1798-1875) and Anna Maria , née Nbody (1807-78).
Bachmann married Irma in 1920 , a daughter of the chemist and factory director Max Buchner (1866–1934), with whom he had 3 children.
Career
Wilhelm Bachmann studied chemistry in Munich and Göttingen , where he earned his doctorate in 1911, completed his habilitation in 1916 and worked as a private lecturer until 1922. He then went to the company E. de Haën (later Riedel-de Haën ) in Seelze as head of the main scientific laboratory . From 1928 he was also an associate professor for colloid chemistry at the TH Hannover .
Bachmann died in a hunting accident in 1933 .
Scientific achievements
In 1916 he invented the membrane filter and ultrafine filter together with Richard Zsigmondy (Nobel Prize 1925) . These filters were first produced from 1917 by the de Haën company (later Riedel-de Haën ) in Seelze , and later by the Göttingen Membranfiltergesellschaft mbH (now part of Sartorius AG ).
literature
- Reich manual of German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930.
- Wilhelm Ebell : Catalogus professorum Gottingensium 1734 - 1962 , ed. and edited on behalf of the Senate of Georgia Augusta, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962, p. 149
- Rita Seidel (written), Horst Gerken et al : Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover , ed. on behalf of the President, Part 2: Catalogus professorum 1831 - 1981 , Stuttgart; Berlin; Cologne; Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 7
- Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem: Bachmann, Wilhelm Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 501 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bachmann, Wilhelm Eduard Paul in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek , last accessed on April 27, 2016
- ^ A b Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem : Bachmann, Wilhelm Eduard , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 1 (1953), p. 501; online version as German biography
- ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, pp. 22-23, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachmann, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bachmann, Wilhelm Eduard Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1933 |
| Place of death | Seelze |