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Willy A. Bein , also Willi Bein , (born April 2, 1869 in Berlin ; † November 17, 1943 there ) was a German chemist . He was a senior councilor and member of the Reichsanstalt, department for weights and measures .

Life

He was the son of the Berlin businessman Emil Bein and his wife Johanna nee Hansen. After attending the Friedrichsgymnasium, where he graduated from high school in 1886, he studied mathematics and physics as well as chemistry at the Berlin University and in Charlottenburg at the Technical University. He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in 1892 and two years later became an employee and in 1910 a member of the Reichsanstalt und Weights and Measures, where he specialized in electrochemistry as well as technical work and processes of electrolysis . In 1934 he retired as a senior councilor.

Willy Bein had been a member of the German Physical Society since 1892 and was also a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology .

Fonts (selection)

(with Leo Grunmach): Determination of the surface tension of oils with the capillary plate apparatus (= scientific treatises of the Imperial Normal Calibration Commission, H. 9). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1917.
(Ed.): A German inventor Otto von Guericke on air pumps and air pressure (= Voigtländer's source books, vol. 20), Voigtländer, Leipzig undated [1918].
The chemical element, its transformation and its structure as a result of scientific research . Leipzig 1920.
(with other authors): Determination of constants of sea water and results on water bodies , Berlin undated [1936].

family

Since August 1910, Willy Bein was married to Friedegunde, daughter of Captain Lutter from Lichterfeld. The son Fritz (* 1912) emerged from the marriage. They lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Koblenzer Strasse 27.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener: Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 89.

Individual evidence

↑ Mark Walker and Dieter Hoffmann (eds.): Physicists between autonomy and adaptation. The German Physical Society in the Third Reich . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-527-40585-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Leg, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bein, Willy A .; Leg, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist, councilor and member of the Reich Institute for Weights and Measures
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 17, 1943
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Mark Walker and Dieter Hoffmann (eds.): Physicists between autonomy and adaptation. The German Physical Society in the Third Reich . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-527-40585-2 .