Short biography and Publications by Carl Wagner (1901-1977)
Short biography
1901 | born on 25. Mai 1901 in Leipzig |
1924 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.) under Privy Councillor Max Le Blanc in Leipzig |
1924-1927 | Research assistant to Theodor Paul at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Munich |
1927 | Habilitation in Munich (with Theodor Paul at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) |
1927-1928 | Scholarship holder of the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft at the Bodenstein Institute in Berlin |
1928-1933 | Private lecturer and assistant at the Chemical Institute of the University of Jena |
1933-1934 | Deputy Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, winter semester 1933/1934 |
1934-1940 | a.o. Professor for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt |
1940-1945 | o. Professor for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt |
1945-1949 | Scientific Advisor, Ordnance Research and Development Division Suboffice Rocket, Fort Bliss in Texas (USA) |
1950-1955 | Visiting Professor of Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA |
1951 | Palladium-Medal of the Electrochemical Society |
1952 | Honorary doctorate of the Technical University Darmstadt |
1955-1958 | Professor for Metallurgie at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA |
1956-1977 | Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina |
1956 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts ans Sciences |
1957 | Willis R. Whitney Award (NACE) |
1958-1966 | Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen |
1959 | Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Trade Association |
1959-1977 | Corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences |
1960-1977 | Full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences |
1960-1977 | Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen |
1961 | Bunsen coin of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry |
1964 | Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal of the Brunswick Scientific Society |
1965 | Honorary doctorate (Dr. Ing. e.h.) of the Clausthal Mining Academy |
1967-1970 | Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen |
1971-1977 | Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer Institute) |
1972 | Heyn commemorative coin of the German Society for Metallurgy |
1972 | Honorary member of the German Bunsen Society |
1973 | Honorary Member of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna |
1973 | Goldmedaille der Amerikanischen Gesellschaft für Metalle |
1973 | Cavallaro Médaille, Fédération Européenne de la Corrosion |
1973 | Honorary member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers |
1975 | Corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society |
1975 | Honorary member of the Japan Institute of Metals |
1977 | died on 10 December 1977 in Göttingen |
Further Information
- Life and achievements of Carl Wagner, 100th birthday
- Carl Wagner, biography in "Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie "
Alternative name spelling
- Carl Wilhelm Wagner
- Carl Wagner
Relatives
- Carl Wagner is the son of Julius Wagner (1857-1924), assistant to Wilhelm Ostwald and Germany's first professor of the didactics of chemistry
Publications
(only until end of his time in Hamburg, until 1934)
(Since no publication explicitly bears the address Hamburg, they are not added up in the institute index)
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