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Nationality
  
Germany

Fields
  
Physics


Known for
  
Acoustics

Name
  
Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Born
  
11 February 1930Gelsenkirchen, Germany (
1930-02-11
)

Institutions
  
Bell LaboratoriesUniversity of Stuttgart

Alma mater
  
RWTH Aachen UniversityUniversity of Gottingen

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Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.

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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
  • Helmholtz Medal of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik, 2003

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