Wolfgang Eisenmenger[1] | |
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Born | Gelsenkirchen, Germany |
Died | 10 December 2016 | (aged 86)
Nationality | Germany |
Alma mater | RWTH Aachen University University of Göttingen |
Known for | Acoustics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Bell Laboratories University of Stuttgart |
Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.[2][3]
His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.
In 1964 he defended habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain. He developed from this investigations an electromagnetic shock wave generator for lithotripsy of kidney stones.