Max Trautz (19 March 1880 – 19 August 1960) was a German

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...

. He was very productive with over 190 scientific publications especially in the field of

chemical kinetics Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the branch of physical chemistry that is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions. It is to be contrasted with chemical thermodynamics, which deals with the direction in ...

. He was the first to investigate the activation energy of molecules by connecting Max Planck's new results concerning light with observations in chemistry. He is also known as the founder of

collision theory Collision theory is a principle of chemistry used to predict the rates of chemical reactions. It states that when suitable particles of the reactant hit each other with correct orientation, only a certain amount of collisions result in a percept ...

together with the British scientist William Lewis. While Trautz published his work in 1916, Lewis published it in 1918. However, they were unaware of each other's work due to

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

.Laidler, Keith James. The World of Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 1993

Publications

* Trautz, Max. ''Der Temperaturkoeffizient der spezifischen Wärme von Gasen'', 1913 * Trautz, Max. ''Die Theorie der chemischen Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit und ein neues Grenzgesetz für ideale Gase'', 1915 * Trautz, Max. ''Messungen der spezifischen Wärme von Co 2, Cl 2 und So 2'', 1916 * Trautz, Max. ''Das Gesetz der Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit und der Gleichgewichte in Gasen. Bestätigung der Additivität von Cv-3/2R. Neue Bestimmung der Integrationskonstanten und der Moleküldurchmesser'', Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 1 – 28, 1916 * Trautz, Max. ''Die Theorie der Gasreaktionen und der Molarwärmen und die Abweichungen von der Additivität der inneren Atomenergie'', 1917 * Trautz, Max. ''Praktische Einführung in die Allgemeine Chemie'', 1917 * Trautz, Max. ''Der Verlauf der chemischen Vorgänge im Dunkeln und im Licht'', 1917. * Trautz, Max. ''Die Einwirkung von Stickoxyd auf Chlor'' * Trautz, Max. ''Die langsame Verbrennung des Jodwasserstoffgases'' * Trautz, Max. ''Die Reibung, Wärmeleitung und Diffusion in Gasmischungen'' * Trautz, Max. ''Lehrbuch der Chemie''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trautz, Max 20th-century German chemists Scientists from Karlsruhe 1880 births 1960 deaths