From the Ritter pile to the aluminum ion battery – Peter Paufler’s academic genealogy
Author:
Leisegang Tilmann12, Levin Aleksandr A.3, Kupsch Andreas4
Affiliation:
1. Institut für Experimentelle Physik, TU Bergakademie Freiberg , Leipziger Str. 23 , 09599 Freiberg , Germany 2. Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science, Samara State Technical University , Molodogvardeyskaya St. 244 , 443100 Samara , Russia 3. Ioffe Institute , Politekhnicheskaya 26 , 194021 St. Petersburg , Russia 4. Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) , Unter den Eichen 87 , 12205 Berlin , Germany
Abstract
Abstract
This article highlights Peter Paufler’s academic genealogy on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We describe the academic background since 1776, which covers 11 generations of scientists: Ritter, Ørsted, Han-steen, Keilhau, Kjerulf, Brøgger, Goldschmidt, Schulze, Paufler, Meyer, and Leisegang. The biographies of these scientists are described in spotlight character and references to scientists such as Dehlinger, Ewald, Glocker, Röntgen, Vegard, Weiss, and Werner are given. A path is drawn that begins in the Romanticism with electrochemistry and the invention of what is probably the first accumulator. It leads through the industrialization and the modern geology, mineralogy, and crystallography to crystal chemistry, metal and crystal physics and eventually returns to electrochemistry and the aluminum-ion accumulator in the era of the energy transition. The academic genealogy exhibits one path of how crystallography develops and specializes over three centuries and how it contributes to the understanding of the genesis of the Earth and the Universe, the exploration of raw materials, and the development of modern materials and products during the industrialization and for the energy transition today. It is particularly characterized by the fields of physics and magnetism, X-ray analysis, and rare-earth compounds and has strong links to the scientific landscape of Germany (Freiberg) and Scandinavia, especially Norway (Oslo), as well as to Russia (Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg). The article aims at contributing to the history of science, especially to the development of crystallography, which is the essential part of the structural science proposed by Peter Paufler.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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