Education
Kern studied from 1924 to 1928 chemistry and physics in Freiburg and Heidelberg.
Kern studied from 1924 to 1928 chemistry and physics in Freiburg and Heidelberg.
The promotion took place in 1930 Hermann Staudinger, at which the habilitation on "The Poylacrylsäure, a model of the protein," followed. Core is considered one of the most important pioneers in the field of preparative macromolecular chemistry. His work in the field of formaldehyde polymer laid the foundation for industrial polymers, such as Hostaform C from Hoechst.
Even in an article in 1938 on cross-linking copolymerization of acrylic acid with divinyl he laid the foundation for the core technology of today as "superabsorbent" designated products, for example in diapers are widely used.