Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist.Werner Lehfeldt und Susanne Nöbel (Red.): Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2008. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009,
Fields of investigation His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.
In 1964 he defended his habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain. He developed from these investigations an electromagnetic shock wave generator for lithotripsy of kidney stones.
Awards and distinctions corresponding member of Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, since 1988 Robert-Wichard-Pohl Award of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 1995 Honorary doctorate from University of Oldenburg, 2002uni-info: Ehrendoktorwürde für Physiker. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, retrieved 24 March 2010. Helmholtz Medal of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik, 2003
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References M. Pilkuhn, M. Wagner: Zur Emeritierung von Prof. Eisenmenger: Grundlagenforschung und Praxisnähe. In: Stuttgarter unikurier Nr.79, 1998
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Uni-Infos vom 04.08.2003 – 08.08.2003. Helmholtz-Medaille für Experimentalphysiker. Universität Stuttgart