Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Short description: German physicist

Wolfgang Eisenmenger[1]

Born|

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Died| 10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (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]

## Contents

* 1 Fields of investigation
* 2 Awards and distinctions
* 3 Notes
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Fields of investigation

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.

## Awards and distinctions

* corresponding member of Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, since 1988
* Robert-Wichard-Pohl Award of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 1995
* Honorary doctorate from University of Oldenburg, 2002[4]
* Helmholtz Medal of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik, 2003

## Notes

1. ↑ Biographical facts are taken from:

W. Eisenmenger: "Phononenphysik mit supraleitenden Tunnelkontakten". In: Physik in unserer Zeit 5(2), 1974, pp. 36–42.
2. ↑ Werner Lehfeldt und Susanne Nöbel (Red.): Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2008. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022160-2
3. ↑ "Gedenkseite von Wolfgang Eisenmenger". stuttgart-gedenkt.de. http://www.stuttgart-gedenkt.de/Traueranzeige/Wolfgang-Eisenmenger. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
4. ↑ uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, abgerufen am 24. März 2010

## References

* M. Pilkuhn, M. Wagner: Zur Emeritierung von Prof. Eisenmenger: Grundlagenforschung und Praxisnähe. In: Stuttgarter unikurier Nr.79, 1998

## External links

* Literature by and about Wolfgang Eisenmenger in the German National Library catalogue
* Uni-Infos vom 04.08.2003 – 08.08.2003. Helmholtz-Medaille für Experimentalphysiker. Universität Stuttgart

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