Arnold Eucken
was born 1884-07-03 in Jena1884-07-03 - 1950-06-16
Arnold Eucken
was born 1884-07-03 in Jena
Studies in Kiel, Jena and Berlin
1906-12-20 PhD; thesis: Der stationäre Zustand zwischen polarisierten Wasserstoffelektroden (supervisor Walther Nernst)
1911-01-21 habilitation; thesis: Über die Temperaturabhängigkeit der Wärmeleitfähigkeit fester Nichtmetalle
1913-08-31 marriage with Fritzi Brausewetter; four children
1915-06-29 / 1919-01-01 ordinary professor and director of the physicochemical institute at the TH Breslau
1929-10-15 / 1930-04-01 ordinary professor and director of the physicochemical institute at the University of Göttingen (successor of Gustav Tammann)
1929 Fellow Göttingen Academy of Sciences
1932 Fellow Leopoldina, Halle
1942 Fellow Bavarian Academy of Sciences
1944 Bunsen-Denkmünze
1945 Dr.-Ing. h. c. TH Karlsruhe
Arnold Eucken died 1950-06-16 in Seebruck (Kr. Traunstein, Chiemsee) at age 65.
1984-06-26 Eucken-Kolloquium at the University of Göttingen at the occasion of his 100th birthday. Commemorative tablet at the old physicochemical institute, Bürgerstr. 50
Eucken worked on specific heats and quantum effects at low temperatures. He wrote seminal textbooks on physical chemistry ("Grundriss der physikalischen Chemie", "Lehrbuch der chemischen Physik"). Some keywords of his research areas are: structure of liquids and electrolytic solutions, molecular vibrations, internal rotation, homogeneous and heterogeneous gas kinetics, supercritical solutions, chemical engineering and technology. Among his coworkers were Klaus Clusius, Ernst Bartholomé, Edward Teller, Klaus Schäfer, Hans Sachsse, Franz Patat, Gerhard Damköhler and Ewald Wicke. One of his last PhD students was Manfred Eigen (b. 1927-05-09), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967.
F. Patat. Arnold Eucken zum 60. Geburtstag. Die Naturwiss. 32(14/26):101 - 102, 1944
R. Plank. Arnold Eucken und die Verfahrenstechnik. Die Naturwiss. 32(14/26):103 - 104, 1944
R. Suhrmann. Arnold Eucken zum 60. Geburtstag. Z. Elektrochem. 50(8):169 - 170, 1944
H. Sachsse. Arnold Eucken 65 Jahre. Z. Elektrochem. 53(4):181 - 182, 1949
R. E. Oesper. Arnold Eucken. J. Chem. Educ. 27:540 - 541, 1950
E. Bartholomé. Arnold Eucken. Die Naturwiss. 37(21):481 - 483, 1950
K. Schäfer. Arnold Eucken. Z. Elektrochem. 54(6):391 - 392, 1950
E. Wicke. Prof. Dr. phil. Dr.-Ing. e. h. Arnold Eucken. Umschau 1950, Heft 17, p. 544
Margot Becke-Goehring und Margaret Eucken. Arnold Eucken. Chemiker - Physiker - Hochschullehrer. Glanzvolle Wissenschaft in zerbrechender Zeit. Ber. Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Sitzung 1995-04-29. Springer-Verlag, 1995, 106 pp.
Revised 2005-04-08