On December 10, 1977, Dr. Carl Wagner, Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie of Göttingen, West Germany, died at the age of 76 after 2 months of serious illness. Professor Wagner had dedicated his life to education and research over a wide spectrum of topics including aqueous solution and high temperature corrosion, solid state chemistry and electrochemistry, thermodynamics and kinetics of metallurgical processes. Acclaimed in the scientific world as one of its finest physical chemists, his dozens of students and hundreds of former colleagues and correspondents knew Professor Wagner as a kind, sympathetic, patient, tireless and helpful gentleman, tutor, and critic.
Carl Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany May 25, 1901. He completed his college education in chemistry at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig, and received his Doctor’s degree from Leipzig in 1924 (at the age of 23!). As an Assistant at the University of...
