Gerhard Damköhler was a prominent German chemist known for his contributions to chemical kinetics and reaction engineering. He is particularly recognized for developing the Damköhler number, a dimensionless number that is used to characterize the relative importance of reaction rates and mass transfer rates in chemical processes. The concept is widely used in fields like chemical engineering and environmental science to analyze and optimize the performance of reactors and other systems involving chemical reactions.
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