Wolfgang Kratschmer (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolfgang Kratschmer (b. 6 August 1942 in Berlin) is a German physicist. Kratschmer studied physics in Berlin. After his Diplom he went to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and earned his PhD there in 1971 with a thesis on artificially etched tracks of accelerated heavy ions in quartz. In his career, he has worked on cosmic-ray heavy-ion tracks in lunar samples, as well as infrared and UV spectra of interstellar dust. Together with Donald Huffman from the University of Arizona he developed the Kratschmer-Huffman procedure for the synthesis of fullerenes. This procedure was the first to produce fullerenes in large amounts for chemical experiments. Since 1993 he is an honorary professor ("Honorarprofessor") at the University of Heidelberg.