Hartmut Bärnighausen
Hartmut Bärnighausen is a German chemist and crystallographer. He is well known for establishing the Bärnighausen trees which describe group-subgroup relationships of crystal structures.Life
Bärnighausen studied Chemistry in Leipzig and received his diploma after a diploma thesis with Leopold Wolf in 1955. In May 1958, he flew from East Germany to Freiburg, where he worked with Georg Brauer. He finished his doctorate in the group of Georg Brauer in 1959. In 1967, he received his habilitation. From 1967 to 1998, he was a professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe.Research
His research focused on the following topics:
He was awarded the Carl Hermann Medal of the German Society for Crystallography in 1997.
