John H. Dessauer

Hans Dessauer ( born May 13, 1905 in Aschaffenburg, † 1993 in Pittsford, New York, John H. Dessauer ) was a German - American engineer.

Life

After attending grammar school in Aschaffenburg, he studied in Freiburg im Breisgau Ph.D. in chemistry in 1929 at RWTH Aachen University with a thesis on chemical engineering. In Freiburg he became a member of the Catholic Student Association Brisgovia in CT. Hans Dessauer should sen in 1936, the eldest son succeeded his early deceased father Hans Dessauer. († 1926), are the boss of his family's Buntpapierfabrik company was, which fell to the ancestors Alois Dessauer. The cast as boss prevented the Nazis.

Then Dessauer went to the USA and worked first at Agfa Ansco, then at Haloid Xerox or where he was chief director of research. The physicist and patent attorney Chester Carlson gave his patents for xerography, which remained unnoticed. At the Columbia Archives, Ohio Dessauer discovered the patents and recognized the potential of the xerox copy of the static method without chemicals ( one copied until then photochemically ) and drove the development of the process moving forward.

Works

  • My years with Xerox, the billions nobody wanted. Doubleday, New York, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1971 Orbit Publishing Geneva, 1971.; Manor Books ( June 1979)
  • Xerography and related Processes. ( with Harold Ernest Clark) Focal P., May 1965
  • New Ringisomerisationen in Camphenreihe. Diss RWTH Aachen, Aschaffenburg: Cherry, 1929
  • Chemical Engineering
  • German
  • Americans
  • Person ( Aschaffenburg )
  • Born 1905
  • Died in 1993
  • Man
  • Korporierter in CT
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