Ernest Max Grunwald

Background

Grunwald, Ernest Max was born on November 2, 1923 in Wuppertal, Germany. Son of Fred and Gertrude (Lowenstein) Grunwald. came to the United States, 1939.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1944; Bachelor of Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1944; Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, 1947.

Career

Research chemist, Portland Cement Association, Chicago, 1947-1948; associate professor of chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee professor of chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1949-1960; research chemist, Bell Telephone laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1960-1964; professor of chemistry, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1964-1980; Henry F. Fischbach professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1980-1989, emeritus, since 1989.

Achievements

• Ernest Max Grunwald has been listed as a noteworthy Chemistry educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions: As Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic and Extrathermodynamic Methods (Dover Books on Chemistry)

    ( Graduate-level text stresses extrathermodynamic approac...)

  • Megawatt Infrared Laser Chemistry

    (Serves as both an introduction and a reference to this ra...)

  • Introduction to Quantitative Chemical Analysis

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Science. Member National Academy Science, American Chemical Society (Pure Chemistry award 1959).

Connections

Married Esther Richter, March 17, 1952. 1 child, Judith.

Father:

Fred Grunwald

Mother:

Gertrude (Lowenstein) Grunwald

Spouse:

Esther Richter

child:

Judith Grunwald