Biography:Wolfgang Eisenmenger

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Short description: German physicist
Wolfgang Eisenmenger[1]
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Born
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Died10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 86)
NationalityGermany
Alma materRWTH Aachen University
University of Göttingen
Known forAcoustics
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Laboratories
University of Stuttgart

Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.[2][3]

Fields of investigation

His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.

In 1964 he defended habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain. He developed from this investigations an electromagnetic shock wave generator for lithotripsy of kidney stones.

Awards and distinctions

  • corresponding member of Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, since 1988
  • Robert-Wichard-Pohl Award of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 1995
  • Honorary doctorate from University of Oldenburg, 2002[4]
  • Helmholtz Medal of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik, 2003

Notes

  1. Biographical facts are taken from:
    W. Eisenmenger: "Phononenphysik mit supraleitenden Tunnelkontakten". In: Physik in unserer Zeit 5(2), 1974, pp. 36–42.
  2. Werner Lehfeldt und Susanne Nöbel (Red.): Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2008. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN:978-3-11-022160-2
  3. "Gedenkseite von Wolfgang Eisenmenger". stuttgart-gedenkt.de. http://www.stuttgart-gedenkt.de/Traueranzeige/Wolfgang-Eisenmenger. Retrieved 27 December 2016. 
  4. uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, abgerufen am 24. März 2010

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