Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer | |
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University of Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry | |
| Doctoral advisor | Walther Nernst, Fritz Haber |
| Doctoral students | Heinz Gerischer Albert Neuberger Ladislaus Farkas |
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (13 January 1899 – 15 May 1957) was a German chemist.[1]
Education and career
Born in
Breslau, he was an older brother of martyred theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His father was neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer
and his mother was Paula von Hase.
Bonhoeffer studied from 1918 in
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for physical and electrochemistry (now the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG).[2]
In 1949, he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen. The institute was restructured long after his death in 1971 and is now the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, also known as the Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute.
Research
In 1929 Bonhoeffer, together with Paul Harteck, discovered the spin isomers of hydrogen, orthohydrogen and parahydrogen.[3]
He died in Göttingen in 1957 at the age of 58.
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