Bernhard Schrader (15 March 1931 – 8 January 2012) was a German professor of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry and teaching until his retirement in 1996 at the University of Essen, where he died.
Amongst his numerous achievements was his historic landmark paper with Bergmann of 1967 about the first successful use of Transmission Raman spectroscopy for chemical analysis of Organic solids,[3] e.g. pharmaceutical powders, which has become routine industry practice since that approach was "rediscovered" in 2006.
He completed his studies in 1960 with his dissertation, supervised by Friedrich Nerdel (whose own Ph.D. advisor had been Walter Hückel) and his assistant Günther Kresze, who later became professor of organic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.
In 1966 Schrader worked as a post-doc at Florida State University in Tallahassee, in the research group of Earle K. Plyler, at that time one of the leading molecular spectroscopists in the USA.
In 1981 Schrader was "visiting scientist" at IBM Research Lab in San Jose, California, in 1984/85 he was a guest professor at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.