Wilhelm Husmann
Wilhelm Husmann (born August 12, 1900 in Bünde , Westphalia , † September 29, 1979 ) was a German chemist. He dealt with wastewater treatment and water analysis.
Life
Husmann studied chemistry at the TH Braunschweig from 1919 and received his doctorate there in 1925. He then worked as an industrial chemist in Lübz and after a time at the Mecklenburg-Schwerin hydraulic engineering department, he headed the operating laboratory of the sewage department of the Emscher Cooperative in Essen from 1926 . From 1931 he advised the canton of Zurich on waste water issues and in 1934 became operations manager of the Werdhölzli sewage treatment plant near Zurich. From 1936 he was back at the Emscher cooperative. From 1953 he taught at RWTH Aachen University , where he was Professor of Chemistry until his retirement in 1965. From 1936 onwards, he succeeded in greatly relieving the heavily polluted Emscher in wastewater treatment . He developed new methods of wastewater treatment (also for substances that are difficult to break down) and the analysis of wastewater. In 1965 he received the Liebig medal .
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989
Fonts
- Practice of wastewater treatment, Springer 1950
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to RWTH Aachen, list of professors . Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of Eminent Chemists gives August 8th as the date of birth.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Husmann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frets |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 1979 |