Professor Dr Heinz Georg Wagner (✝︎)
- Section Chemistry
- Location Göttingen, Germany
- Election year 1981
Research
Combustion:
Cool flames, ignition processes, flame structure, propagation and acceleration, inhibition, detonations (their structure, limits and initiation), soot formation, explosions hazards
Reaction kinetics:
Unimolecular reactions, especially decomposition of small molecules in shock waves, hydrocarbon oxidation, reactions of atoms and radicals in ground and excited state reactions
Thermodynamics:
Vapour-liquid-equilibria, dynamics of separation processes for rectification systems and reactor distillation systems.
Cool flames, ignition processes, flame structure, propagation and acceleration, inhibition, detonations (their structure, limits and initiation), soot formation, explosions hazards
Reaction kinetics:
Unimolecular reactions, especially decomposition of small molecules in shock waves, hydrocarbon oxidation, reactions of atoms and radicals in ground and excited state reactions
Thermodynamics:
Vapour-liquid-equilibria, dynamics of separation processes for rectification systems and reactor distillation systems.
Career
- 1983-1989 Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1983-1984 Chairman of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
- 1978-1982 Vice President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- since 1976 Secretary of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen, Germany
- 1976-1980 Vice-Chairman of the DFG Chemistry Committee
- 1972-1980 Expert of the DFG
- 1971-1997 Head of the Department Reaction Kinetics, University Göttingen, Germany
- 1971-1997 Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University Göttingen, Germany
- 1965-1971 Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University Bochum, Germany
- 1960 Habilitation, University Göttingen, Germany
- 1956 Ph.D., Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- 1948-1953 Studies in Chemistry and Physics at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Honours and Memberships
- 1999 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1999 Honorary Member of the German Bunsen Society
- 1997 DECHEMA Medal
- 1993 Walther Nernst Commemorative Coin of the German Bunsen Society
- 1991 Dionizy Smolenski Medal
- 1987 Merit Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1987 Numan Manson Medal
- 1982 Titan Badge of the DECHEMA
- 1972 Bernard Lewis Gold Medal of the International Combustion Institute
- 1963 Fritz Haber Award of the German Bunsen Society