Contents
A Moment of Reflection: Sixty Years After the Nobel Prize for
Hermann Staudinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Helmut Ringsdorf
Hermann Staudinger and Polymer Research in Freiburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hans-Joachim Cantow and Rolf Mu ¨lhaupt
Hermann Staudinger: Aspects of Fame and Memory, Motivation
and Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Gerhard Wegner
Staudinger’s Time in Karlsruhe and His Later Relations with
Karlsruhe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Manfred Wilhelm
Why Was the Macromolecular Hypothesis Such a Big Deal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Ulrich W. Suter
Courageous Questioning of Established Thinking: The Life and
Work of Hermann Staudinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Markus Weber and Guido Deussing
Staudinger’s Footprints in Japan During His 30-Day Visit in 1957 . . . . . . 139
Akihiro Abe
The Years After the Retirement of Hermann Staudinger:
Research on Solution Properties in the Physicochemical Group
of Walther Burchard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Walther Burchard
Dynamers: From Supramolecular Polymers to Adaptive Dynamic
Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Jean-Marie Lehn
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