Wilhelm Jost (physical chemist)

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Memorial plaque on the premises of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing , Unter den Eichen 87, in Berlin-Lichterfelde
The grave of Wilhelm Jost and his wife Maria Antonia geb. Kobler in his parents' grave at the Gertraudenfriedhof in Halle (Saale).

Friedrich Wilhelm Jost (born June 15, 1903 in Friedberg (Hesse) , † September 23, 1988 in Göttingen ) was a German physical chemist and university professor .

Life

Jost studied from 1921 to 1926 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , with a semester in between at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After his diploma in 1924 and his doctorate in 1926 with Carl Tubandt in Halle, he worked from 1926 to 1929 as a private assistant to Max Bodenstein at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1929 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Hanover , where he worked as a private lecturer from 1929 to 1935 and as an associate professor from 1935. In between he was a Rockefeller Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1932 to 1933 . In 1937 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Leipzig . In 1942 Jost was temporarily deputy head of the Institute for Fuels and Lubricants in Strasbourg, which was subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Aviation . From 1943 he initially took over the representation at the chair for physical chemistry and was then full professor and director of the Physico-Chemical Institute at the University of Marburg from 1944 to 1951 . From 1951 Jost was a full professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt and then from 1953 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen as the successor to Arnold Eucken . In 1971 he retired .

He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1957 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1966 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Dresden . He retired in 1968 . In 1980 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina.

Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal

In 1992, the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal was established at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences through a foundation , which has been awarded annually since 1993. In addition to a medal that is presented to the winner, he also holds a lecture at one of Wilhelm Jost's workplaces.

Services

Jost made important contributions to physical chemistry, his areas of work were in particular:

Fonts

  • Explosion and combustion processes in gases. Berlin 1939.
  • Diffusion in solids, liquids, gases. 3rd edition, New York 1960.
  • together with Jürgen Troe : Short textbook of physical chemistry: with 73 tables , 18th edition of the textbook established by Hermann Ulich, Darmstadt: Steinkopff 1973
  • Global environmental problems: Lectures for students from all faculties, summer semester 1972 , Darmstadt: Steinkopff 1974 (series: Uni-Taschenbücher; 338), ISBN 3-7985-0377-X .

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Jost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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 of Philipps University, February 2020, p. 75 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the TU Dresden. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-dresden.de
  3. ↑ see page of ADW Göttingen on the Wilhelm Joste Memorial Medal
personal data
SURNAME Jost, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jost, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physical chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1988
Place of death Goettingen