Otto Sackur
Otto Sackur (28 September 1880 in Breslau, Germany – 17 December 1914 in Berlin, Germany) was a German physical chemist.He is known for the development of the Sackur–Tetrode equation, which he developed independently of Hugo Tetrode. His and Tetrode's names are also combined to name the Sackur–Tetrode constant derived using the equation.
Sackur studied at the University of Breslau, receiving his doctorate there in 1901 under Richard Abegg. He received his ''Habilitation'' in 1905 under Richard Abegg. He then worked in London before joining the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, becoming the head of the physical chemistry department early 1914. He had good relations with Clara Immerwahr. They studied as doctoral students together, and Immerwahr was the one who got him the job in the Institute.
After the outbreak of WWI, he was enlisted for military research, and during free time carried out experiments on the behavior of gases at low temperatures. During experiments on chemical warfare, he mixed a beaker of dichloromethylamine mixed with cacodyl chloride, and while observing it at eye level, it exploded. Gerhard Leopold Just (1877 - 1948), an assistant to Haber, lost his right hand in the explosion.
Haber, Just, and Sackur were back then researching on improvements to the T-Shell, with the aim of finding some chemical that could serve both as an explosive and an irritant. Cacodyl chloride, first synthesized by Robert Bunsen in 1837, fitted the description. Indeed, it had scarcely been researched since its discovery precisely because it is highly irritating and explosive. Provided by Wikipedia
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<<Die>> chemische Affinität und ihre Messung by Sackur, Otto 1880-1914
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Die chemische Affinität und ihre Messung Die chemische Affinität und ihre Messung / by Sackur, Otto, 1880-1914
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Lehrbuch der Thermochemie und Thermodynamik / by Sackur, Otto, 1880-1914
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Über die Bedeutung der Elektronentheorie für die Chemie : Antritts-Vorlesung / by Sackur, Otto, 1880-1914
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Einführung in die Chemie : ein Lehrbuch für Zahnärzte und Studierende der Zahnheilkunde / by Sackur, Otto, 1880-1914
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<<Die>> chemische Affinität und ihre Messung by Sackur, Otto 1880-1914
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Lehrbuch der Thermochemie und Thermodynamik by Sackur, Otto 1880-1914
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Physikalisch-chemische Rechenaufgaben by Abegg, Richard 1869-1910, Sackur, Otto 1880-1914
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Untersuchungen über die galvanische Leitfähigkeit der Elektrolyte am 6. Juni 1883 der kgl. Schwedischen Akad. der Wissenschaften vorgelegte Abhandlung by Arrhenius, Svante 1859-1927
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Physikalisch-chemische Rechenaufgaben / by Abegg, Richard, 1869-1910
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Untersuchungen über die galvanische Leitfähigkeit der Elektrolyte am 6. Juni 1883 der kgl. Schwedischen Akad. der Wissenschaften vorgelegte Abhandlung by Arrhenius, Svante 1859-1927
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