Baltzar von Platen (inventor)

Baltzar von Platen ( born February 24, 1898 in Malmö, † 1984) was a Swedish inventor.

He belonged to a German noble family of the Rügen- Pomeranian Uradels who emigrated mid-18th century to Sweden and was able to maintain its rights. The needle naturalization for his branch of the family was in Sweden for the first time on November 21, 1751 for the Swedish Major Achates Baltzar von Platen. Other nobility Naturalization tions followed on 23 October 1778 Philipp Julius Bernhard von Platen, Royal. schwed. Major-General, and on January 29, 1818 at the Finnish knighthood for Bogislav Gustav von Platen. As Baltzar von Platen in 1922 left the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy. In his thesis he invented together with Carl Munters diffusion absorption refrigeration machine as it comes up today in each absorption refrigerator for use. This system was used in 1925 by the company Electrolux for its globally successful refrigerator.

Within the Swedish company ASEA worked with von Platen on a project that had the goal of being able to produce diamonds with the aid of heat and pressure. However, he left the project before 1953 achieved the first successful production of a synthetic diamond.