Max Trautz was a German

Germany

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 chemist

Chemist

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

Chemical kinetics

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. He was the first to investigate the activation energy of molecules by connecting Max Planck's

Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...

 new results concerning light with observations in chemistry.

He is also known as the founder of collision theory

Collision theory

Collision theory is a theory proposed by Max Trautz and William Lewis in 1916 and 1918, that qualitatively explains how chemical reactions occur and why reaction rates differ for different reactions. For a reaction to occur the reactant particles must collide. Only a certain fraction of the total...

 together with the British scientist William Lewis

William Lewis

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. While Trautz published his work in 1916, Lewis published it in 1918. However, they were unaware of each others work due to World War I

World War I

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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