Herbert Freundlich
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Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich FRS(28 January 1880, Charlottenburg
– 30 March 1941, Minneapolis) was a German chemist
.
His father was Jewish descendable German, and his mother (Finlay
) was from Scotland
. His younger brother was Erwin Finlay Freundlich (1885-1964)
He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from 1919 until his forced retirement in 1933.
His most prominent student was Robert Havemann
who became a well known colloid
chemist of the German Democratic Republic
.
Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, named after Queen consort Sophia Charlotte...
– 30 March 1941, Minneapolis) was a German chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
.
His father was Jewish descendable German, and his mother (Finlay
Finlay
Finlay is a masculine given name, and also a surname. The given name is represented in Scottish Gaelic as Fionnlagh.-Given name:*Findláech of Moray Finlay McRory, Mormaer of Moray, MacBeth's father*Finlay Mickel, Scottish skier...
) was from Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. His younger brother was Erwin Finlay Freundlich (1885-1964)
He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from 1919 until his forced retirement in 1933.
His most prominent student was Robert Havemann
Robert Havemann
Robert Havemann was a chemist, and an East German dissident.He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later received a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute....
who became a well known colloid
Colloid
A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance.A colloidal system consists of two separate phases: a dispersed phase and a continuous phase . A colloidal system may be solid, liquid, or gaseous.Many familiar substances are colloids, as shown in the chart below...
chemist of the German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...
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External links
- Herbert Freundlich - Did you know that the man of science Herbert Freudlich was a also composer?
- Ausstellungstafel der TU Berlin zu Prof. Freundlich
- Otto Hahns Rolle als Interimsdirektor des KWI für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie 1933. Ein Vorabdruck aus dem Forschungsprogramm „Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus“