Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Wolfgang Eisenmenger[1]
Born (1930-02-11)11 February 1930
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Nationality Germany
Fields Physics
Institutions Bell Laboratories
University of Stuttgart
Alma mater RWTH Aachen University
University of Göttingen
Known for Acoustics

Wolfgang Eisenmenger (born 11 February 1930[2]) is a German physicist.

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

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. uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, abgerufen am 24. März 2010

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