Eugen Glueckauf Collection

Eugen Glueckauf was born in Eisenach in 1906 to Bruno Glueckauf and Elsa née Pretzfelder. He grew up in Berlin and studied chemistry in Freiburg, Berlin and Berlin-Charlottenburg. He received his doctorate in 1932 and started working for Professor Alfred Reis at the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg. Both Reis and Glueckauf lost their jobs after April 1, 1933. Glueckauf emigrated to England and was able to obtain an assistant position with Friedrich Adolf Paneth at the Imperial College of the University of London. In 1934, he married Irma Elise Auguste Tepper, who had followed him to England. Their daughter Barbara was born in 1938. In 1939, he followed Paneth to the University of Durham. He was briefly interned in 1940. He became a British citizen in 1946 and started working for the Department of Atomic Energy at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell in 1947. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969. Glueckauf retired in 1971, but his services were retained as a consultant until his death in 1981. His primary working areas were micro-gas analysis of atmospheric gases, theory of ion exchange and chromatography, radio chemistry, and electrolyte solution chemistry.