Gerhard Borrmann
Gerhard Borrmann (30 April 1908 – 12 April 2006) was a German physicist.
He was born in
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie (KWI). There he discovered a phenomenon regarding the anomalous low absorption of X-rays that became known as the "Borrmann effect" (or "Borrmann-Campbell effect", for Herbert N. Campbell.)[1]
Following the war, in 1951 Bormann was offered the Kristalloptik der Röntgenstrahlen department of the KWI.Technische Universität Berlin, retiring in 1970. In 1996, the German Crystallographic Society honored Gerhard Borrmann pioneering work in X-ray diffraction with the inaugural Carl Hermann Medal.[1]
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- ^ "6. Incorporation into the Max-Planck Society". Historical Review of the Fritz-Haber-Institut. Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
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