Wolf-Dieter Schubert

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Wolf-Dieter Schubert (born September 16, 1951 in Vienna ) is an Austrian chemist , powder metallurgist and hard metal specialist .

Life

After attending a grammar school in Vienna from 1961 to 1969, Wolf-Dieter Schubert began studying chemistry in 1970 at the Vienna University of Technology , but interrupted it around 1974 to hitchhike to Syria, Iran and Iraq. After his return he studied with Richard Kieffer and Peter Ettmayer at the Institute for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Substances on the chemistry of refractory metals . In 1980 he received his PhD on the phase equilibria in the systems Co-Mo-WC and Ni-Mo-WC . He thus developed the basis for a substitution of tungsten carbide in hard metal with dimolybdenum carbide , which was an urgent problem in the hard metal industry in the 1970s, as tungsten prices rose enormously. As the price fell again, the replacement of tungsten carbide was never put into practice. After receiving his doctorate in technical chemistry , he left the university to travel through Peru until he had to return to Austria after seven months due to an illness. He resumed his old position as university assistant with Benno Lux , Richard Kieffer's successor. In 1993 he completed his habilitation on the production of the finest and ultra-fine tungsten carbide powders and hard metal alloys in the field of metallurgy and chemical technologies with the award of the venia docendi . In 1998 he was appointed associate professor at the Institute for Chemical Technologies and Analytics at the TU Vienna, a position he held until his retirement in 2016. Wolf-Dieter Schubert has been a technical advisor to the International Tungsten Industry Association (ITIA), the global industrial association of tungsten manufacturers, since 2004.

Publications and scientific work

Wolf-Dieter Schubert published over 100 publications and supervised 78 diploma theses and dissertations, in particular on the subject of tungsten carbide and hard metal. The monograph Tungsten , co-authored with Erik Lassner , is now considered a standard work on the element tungsten . A three-part school film about Wolfram was made under Schubert's leadership in 2002.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Burghard Zeiler: Laudation for Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schubert on the occasion of the awarding of the SKAUPY Prize 2015 as part of the 34th Powder Metallurgy Symposium . In: Ceramic magazine . tape 68 , no. 6 , November 1, 2016, p. 300-303 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03400275 .
  2. ↑ W. Schubert: Very fine and ultrafine-grain hard metals - from powder to tool . In: Ceramic magazine . tape 67 , no. 7 , November 2015, p. 365 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03400395 .
  3. ↑ a b Christian Edtmaier, Roland Haubner, Burghard Zeiler, Herbert Danninger, Hugo Ortner: Special issue devoted to the 65th birthday of aoUniv. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Wolf-Dieter SCHUBERT, Vienna University of Technology, Austria . In: International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials . tape 62 , January 2017, p. 85 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijrmhm.2016.07.018 .
  4. ↑ Untitled. In: info.tuwien.ac.at. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ Wolf-Dieter Schubert - Vienna University of Technology, Vienna - Vienna University of Technology - Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics. In: researchgate.net. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  6. ^ Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert: Tungsten: Properties, Chemistry, Technology of the Elements, Alloys, and Chemical Compounds . Springer Science & Business Media, New York 1999, ISBN 978-1-4615-4907-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4615-4907-9 (English, 422 pages, limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ 34th Hagen Symposium on Powder Metallurgy: "Efficient processes - special properties" . In: Ceramic magazine . tape 68 , no. 1 , February 1, 2016, p. 17-21 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03400404 .
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Wolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist, powder metallurgist and hard metal specialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna