Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.[2][3]

Wolfgang Eisenmenger[1]
Born(1930-02-11)11 February 1930
Died10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 86)
NationalityGerman
Alma materRWTH Aachen University
University of Göttingen
Known forAcoustics
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Laboratories
University of Stuttgart

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His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.

In 1964 he defended his habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain. He developed from these investigations an electromagnetic shock wave generator for lithotripsy of kidney stones.

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Notes

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  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. ^ "Gedenkseite von Wolfgang Eisenmenger". stuttgart-gedenkt.de. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  4. ^ uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, retrieved 24 March 2010.

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