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Jun 14, 1904 Dargun, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany Died on 01 Dec 1990 (aged 86)
German chemist
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About Gustav Kortüm
- Gustav Ferdinand Albert Kortüm (14 June 1904 to 1 December 1990) was a German physical chemist. Kortüm was the son of a pastor and studied chemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 1922.
- In 1928 he received his doctorate under Georg Bredig with a thesis on the knowledge of hydrocyanic acid synthesis from carbon monoxide and ammonia.
- He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin and from 1929 was assistant to Johannes Ludwig Ebert in Würzburg.
- From 1931 he was an assistant to Hans von Halban at the University of Zürich.
- From 1937 he taught at the University of Tübingen, where he became full professor in 1942 and director of the newly created institute for physical chemistry.
- He became an emeritus professor in 1971. He focused on spectrophotometry, electrochemistry, and electrolyte solutions (reviewing the Debye-Hückel theory and Onsager's theory of solvent mixtures), vapor pressure measurements on binary systems, and reflection spectroscopy.
- In 1959 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.
