10 Facts About Max Volmer

From 1905 to 1908, Max Volmer studied chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg.

Max Volmer became an assistant lecturer at Leipzig in 1912, and after completion of his Habilitation there in 1913, he became a Privatdozent at the university.

In 1916, Max Volmer went to work on military-related research at the Physical Chemistry Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University.

In 1920, Max Volmer was appointed extraordinarius professor of physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the University of Hamburg.

In 1930, he published a paper from which was attributed the Butler-Max Volmer equation, based on earlier work of John Alfred Valentine Butler.

Max Volmer, Manfred von Ardenne, director of his private laboratory Forschungslaboratoriums fur Elektronenphysik, Gustav Hertz, Nobel Laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at Siemens, and Peter Adolf Thiessen, ordinarius professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie in Berlin-Dahlem, had made a pact.

Late in January 1946, Max Volmer was assigned to the Nauchno-Issledovatel'skij Institut-9, in Moscow.

Max Volmer was given a design bureau to work on the production of heavy water; Robert Dopel worked at NII-9.

The installation was constructed at Norilsk and completed in 1948, after which Max Volmer's organization was transferred to Zinaida Yershova's group, which worked on plutonium extraction from fission products.

Max Volmer received the Soviet Union's national prize, first class, Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes.