Hans List
Hans List ( born April 30, 1896 in Graz, † September 10, 1996 ) was an Austrian entrepreneur.
Life
After studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz, which he completed after 6 semesters, Hans List doctorate during his first professional job at the Graz Wagon and Machine Factory on the regulation of diesel engines. 1926 Hans List was appointed as a scientist at the Tongji University in China. He built there a corresponding institution and conducted significant research by the calculation of vibrational processes of the charge cycle of internal combustion engines. The joined from 1932 to 1941 a lecturer professor of internal combustion engines at the Technical University of Graz and from 1941 to 1945 professor of piston machines at the Technical University Dresden. Results of his research were sensational investigations of diesel engines and internal combustion engines.
This topic dominated the company, founded in Graz by him in 1948, the " Institute for Internal Combustion Engines Prof. Dr. Hans List " (AVL), which emerged from an engineering company founded in 1946. AVL soon became a world-renowned company in the field of engine development, but also the measurement technology and medical technology. Some 1,000 patents show the technical skills of the company, many subsidiaries throughout the world attest to her the commercial success. In 1979 he completed the management of the extensive time 500 employee company into the hands of his son Helmut List at the age of 83 years. Since then, the company has successfully developed and has approximately 5,250 employees worldwide.
Scientific activity
His methodology was to recognize technical problems to formulate mathematically represent and then - albeit in a simplified form - to solve. Especially important to him was the subsequent trial even test theoretical results. Implement The results achieved in industrial products, the last, but certainly not easiest step of his work was.
In this way arose in the course of his ministry more than 300 patents that were filed by Prof. List as sole inventor or in cooperation with staff.
His journalistic activities culminated in the "List - series ": The internal combustion engine, 1st and 2nd episode (Volume 1-14) by Springer-Verlag emerged in the years 1939 to 1952 you are still among the world's major series of scientific books. in the field of internal combustion engines.
Awards (excerpt)
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- Ring of Honor of the Province of Styria
- Wilhelm Exner Medal (1971 )
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Graz
- 1963: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Graz