Bernhard Schrader

Bernhard Schrader ( born March 15, 1931 in Quedlinburg, † January 8, 2012 in Essen ) was a German professor of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry. Schrader was a pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, in particular the Raman and infrared spectroscopy, and the routine use of these technologies in chemical analysis. Schrader made ​​in numerous areas pioneering work, for example, he published already in the 1960s, work on the medical application of Raman spectroscopy. In addition, he demonstrated as early as 1967 the possibilities of successful transmission Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of organic solids such as powders in the pharmaceutical industry, more than 40 years before this technology was taken up again and by default introduced in the industry.

Life

After training as a chemical technician at Fahl mountain -List in Magdeburg ( where he gathered with Hans Fürst first experience in industrial research ) went Schrader in the early 1950s to Berlin to study chemistry at the Technical University. As a young student whose home residence Quedlinburg he took part in the popular uprising in Berlin of 17 June 1953. Schrader graduated from the Technical University in 1960 with a doctorate. In collaboration with his doctor father Friedrich Nerdel at this time was the first edition of his " textbook of organic chemistry ", which should reach a total of six editions by 2010.

1961 Schrader moved to Dortmund at the Institute for Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ), then under the leadership of Henry Kaiser, where he built up the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy 1971, and. In 1966, a researcher at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA, in the research group of Earle K. Plyler, a then leading Molekülspektroskopiker in the USA.

From 1971 to 1976 Schrader was Professor of Theoretical Organic Chemistry at the then University of Dortmund ( TU Dortmund today ). In 1976 he accepted a professorship at the University of Essen, where he held a chair of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry until his retirement in 1996.

1981 Schrader was a visiting scholar at the former IBM Research Lab in San Jose, California, USA, works, 1985/86 he held a research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Legacy

Schrader has published over 300 scientific papers, and in particular created in addition to the below standard works by him and excited, still frequently referenced extensive spectral libraries and atlases, including two published by Verlag Chemie character templates for chemical and mathematical formulas and in 1975 four scientific Movies for the demonstration of molecular vibrations (IMF Göttingen).

He supervised 63 doctoral theses, and in addition many foreign graduate students and a five Humboldt Fellows.

For his scientific achievements and also for his intense personal commitment to the international scientific cooperation, in particular with Eastern and South Eastern European countries and Turkey, he received numerous awards at home and abroad, including Schrader was backing the Clemens Winkler Medal of the German Chemical Society, honorary Member of the German working Group for Applied Spectroscopy ( DASp ), support of the Friedrich Emich plaque of the ASAC, honorary member of the "Turkish Chemical Society ", and member of the scientific-technical class of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences.

Works

• Short textbook of organic chemistry. 3rd edition. De Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-1102-0360-8.
• Raman IR Atlas of Organic Compounds. Wiley-VCH, 1974, ISBN 978-3-5272-5539-9.
• Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy. Methods and Applications. Wiley-VCH, 1995, ISBN 978-3-5272-6446-9.

Movies

Release: IMF Göttingen, 1975, along with Dr. Richard Schneider

• Vibrations of Free Molecules - 1 Stretching and Bending Vibrations in Ethylene
• Vibration free molecules - 2 waveforms of the methyl group in propylene
• Vibrations of free molecules - 3 vibration modes of aromatic rings in melamine
• Oscillations of Molecules in Crystal Lattices Melamine with Hydrogen Bonds