Jost Wilhelm biography
Date of birth : 1903-06-15
Date of death : 1988-09-23
Birthplace : Friedberg, Hessen
Nationality : German
Category : Science and Technology
Last modified : 2010-05-19
Credited as : Physicist, Technische Hochschule Hannover, Thesis on diffusion in ionic crystals
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Subsequently he went to Berlin as coworker of Max Bodenstein where he habilitated in 1929. Until 1937 he worked at the Technische Hochschule Hannover, interrupted by a Rockefeller Research Fellowship at MIT (1932/33). He was appointed professor in Leipzig (1937), in Marburg (1943), at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (1951) and finally in Göttingen (1953).
His research interests focussed on diffusion processes in solids, thermodynamics and technique of distillation, as well as on the kinetics of gas phase reactions, in particular in relation to combustion processes and flames. He wrote textbooks on "Explosions- und Verbrennungsvorgänge in Gasen" and on "Diffusion in Solids, Liquids, Gases", and he continued Hermann Ulich's textbook "Kurzes Lehrbuch der physikalischen Chemie" (6th ed. 1954; subsequently continued by J. Troe, 18th ed. 1972).
Jost died 1988-09-23 in Göttingen at age 85.
