Rolf Hosemann

Rolf Hosemann (20 April 1912 in Rostock – 28 September 1994 in Berlin) was a German physicist who laid the mathematical foundations for paracrystallinity.

He had received the topic of his dissertation The Radioactivity of Samarium[3] from his academic teacher George de Hevesy, who had to leave Germany in 1934 because of his Jewish descent.

In 1939 he received his habilitation with a thesis on small-angle X-ray scattering on cellulose.

In 1960 he was put in charge of his own department at the Fritz Haber Institute, and in 1966 the Max Planck Society appointed him a scientific member.

[1][4] On 18 February 1974 the chemistry department of the Free University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his services to the development of theoretical crystallography, in particular the theory of paracrystals, and his fundamental work on the structure of macromolecules.