Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich (28 January 1880 in

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– 30 March 1941 in

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) was a

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. His father was of German Jewish descent, and his mother (

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) was from

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. His younger brother was Erwin Finlay Freundlich (1885–1964). He was a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (now the Fritz Haber Institute) from 1919 until 1933, when the racial policies of the Nazi party demanded the dismissal of non-Aryans from senior posts. In 1934 he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Emigrating to England, Freundlich accepted a guest professorship at University College London. Five years later, he accepted a professorship at the

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. He died in Minneapolis two years later. Freundlich's main works dealt with the coagulation and stability of

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solutions. His most prominent student was

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who became a well known colloid chemist of the

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. His work is of continuing importance, with his 1907 paper "Über die Adsorption in Lösungen" (On adsorption in solutions) becoming highly cited at the beginning of the 21st century. This early paper was based on his habilitation thesis written in

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under the guidance of

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, and was heavily based on the work of Sten Lagergren.

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Otto Hahns Rolle als Interimsdirektor des KWI für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie 1933.
Ein Vorabdruck aus dem Forschungsprogramm „Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus" 1880 births 1941 deaths German physical chemists 20th-century American chemists Technical University of Braunschweig faculty Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Foreign Members of the Royal Society Humboldt University of Berlin faculty Technical University of Berlin faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Colloid chemists Max Planck Institute directors {{Germany-chemist-stub

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