Walter Noddack

Walter Noddack ( born August 17, 1893 in Berlin, † December 7, 1960 in Bamberg ) was a German chemist. Together with his future wife, Ida Tacke, and Otto Berg in 1925 he discovered the element rhenium. The simultaneous discovery of the element with the atomic number 43, called by them " Masurium ", was described as early as 1925 in the magazine Popular Science. The discovery of element 43 was officially called into question; this element was declared in 1937 proved to be safe and called technetium.

In 1931, he received together with his wife the Liebig Medal of the German Chemical Society. In 1935, he taught as a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Freiburg from 1941 to 1945, founded by the Nazis in the " State University of Strasbourg ". Since 1947 he was a professor z.Wv. worked at the Philosophical- Theological College Bamberg before 1957 he was an honorary professor at the University of Erlangen and Director of the State Research Institute of Geochemistry in Bamberg.

Walter Noddack was buried in Bamberg.