Wolfgang Eisenmenger Explained

Wolfgang Eisenmenger^[1]
Birth Date:	11 February 1930
Birth Place:	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Nationality:	German
Alma Mater:	RWTH Aachen University University of Göttingen
Known For:	Acoustics
Field:	Physics
Work Institution:	Bell Laboratories University of Stuttgart

Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.^{[2] [3]}

Fields of investigation

His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.

In 1964 he defended his habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain. He developed from these 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

References

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

External links

• • Uni-Infos vom 04.08.2003 – 08.08.2003. Helmholtz-Medaille für Experimentalphysiker. Universität Stuttgart

Notes and References

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,
3. Web site: Gedenkseite von Wolfgang Eisenmenger. stuttgart-gedenkt.de. 27 December 2016.
4. http://www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/uni-info/2002/6/news.htm uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker