Arnold Eucken

Arnold Eucken ( born July 3, 1884 in Jena, † June 16, 1950 in Seebruck, Chiemsee ) was a German physical chemist.

Life

Eucken was born the son of the philosopher and later Nobel laureate Rudolf Eucken in Jena. He was brother of the economist Walter Eucken. He completed his studies in Kiel, Jena and Berlin. Since 1903 he was a member of the Corps Saxonia Kiel.

He worked at Walther Nernst and his habilitation in 1911 in Kiel. In 1915 Eucken held a chair at the Technical University Wroclaw, 1930 at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen as successor to Gustav Tammann. After the transfer of power to the Nazis and their election victory Eucken was 1933 member of the NSDAP. He continued to participate as a full professor in Göttingen.

Since 1913 he was married to Fritzi Brausewetter; the couple had four children. Eucken 1950 ended his life by suicide.

Services

Eucken made ​​important contributions in the field of physical and technical chemistry. He focused on specific heats at very low temperatures, the structure of liquids and electrolyte solutions, molecular physics (rotation, vibration ) on deuterium and heavy water on homogeneous and heterogeneous gas kinetics, catalysis, chemical engineering and chemical technology.

At his invitation came Edward Teller in 1931 to Göttingen, who worked there with James Franck and Hertha Sponer especially with.

One of the last doctoral Eucken was the future Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen.

Awards, Honors, Memberships

Works

• Floor plan of Physical Chemistry, Leipzig, various editions from 1922
• Textbook of Chemical Physics, Leipzig, various editions from 1930
• Arnold Eucken and Rudolf Suhrmann, Physico- Chemical internship tasks, Leipzig, various editions from 1928
• The Nernst heat theorem, results of exact Naturwiss. , 1:120-162, 1922