Max Volmer
German chemist
Died when: 80 years 31 days (961 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Max Volmer (German: ['f?lm?]; 3 May 1885 – 3 June 1965) was a German physical chemist, who made important contributions in electrochemistry, in particular on electrode kinetics.
He co-developed the Butler–Volmer equation.Volmer held the chair and directorship of the Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute of the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
After World War II, he went to the Soviet Union, where he headed a design bureau for the production of heavy water.
Upon his return to East Germany ten years later, he became a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and was president of the East German Academy of Sciences.
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