Klaus Clusius

Klaus Clusius ( born March 19, 1903 in Breslau, † May 28 1963 in Zurich; actually Klaus Clusius Paul Alfred ) was a German chemist.

Life

Clusius was a chemistry student at the Technical University of Wroclaw and in 1928 received his doctorate, his doctor father was Rudolf Suhrmann. From 1926 to 1929 he was an assistant with the teaching there Arnold Eucken.

From 1929 to 1930 he was by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Universities of Oxford and suffering. In 1930 he habilitated at the University of Göttingen. From 1934 to 1936 he was an associate professor of physical chemistry at the University of Würzburg. 1936 to 1947 he was a full professor at the University of Munich, then to 1963 full professor at the University of Zurich.

At the second meeting of the working group " nuclear research " of the uranium project of the Reich Research Council, 1942, he gave a lecture on the enrichment of uranium isotopes.

Clusius made ​​fundamental studies on reaction kinetics, particularly of chemical chain reactions and phase transformations of substances and their properties at low temperatures. In 1938 he developed together with Gerhard Dickel a method for separation of stable isotopes and their enrichment by thermal diffusion ( separator tube according to Clusius and Dickel ). During this time he also worked on the history of chemistry and physics.

Services

Clusius has won several awards:

He was also a member of various academies and the Natural History Society Zurich and has published numerous articles in Scientific. Magazines. In 1942 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.