Gerhard Krohn Rollefson

Gerhard Krohn Rollefson (1900–1955) was a professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]

Gerhard Krohn Rollefson
Awards

Background and Career

Rollefson received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation concerned Ebullioscopic constant measurement of mixed liquid media.[2] He then completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Rollefson was a specialist in physical chemistry and studied the impact of X-ray radiation on a variety of materials.[3] Rollefson published a book with Milton Burton in 1939: Photochemistry and the Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions.[4]


Rollefson was a long-serving editor of Annual Reviews in Physical Chemistry.[5]

References
  1. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Gerhard Krohn Rollefson". Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. Rollefson, G. K. (1921). Ebulliscopic measurements in mixed liquids.
  3. Rollefson, Gerhard Krohn (1924-01-01). "Spectral Series in the Soft X-ray Region". Physical Review. 23 (1): 35–45. Bibcode:1924PhRv...23...35R. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.23.35.
  4. Rollefson, G. K.; Burton, Milton (1939). Photochemistry and the mechanism of chemical reactions. Prentice-Hall chemistry series. New York: Prentice-Hall.
  5. Rollefson, Gerhard Krohn (1955). Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Annual Reviews, Incorporated.

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