Ehrenberg, Wolfgang (1909-)
Ehrenberg, Wolfgang (1909-)
Chemist and lecturer on atomic physics with special interest in parapsychology. Ehrenberg was born January 8, 1909, in Munich, Germany. He attended the University of Munich and joined the teaching staff following his graduation in 1936. He became an industrial consultant and researcher in the fields of chemistry and physics and published many scientific papers on these subjects and on the psychophysics of color. From 1950 to 1953 he was a staff member of the thermonuclear pilot plant at the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission in Bariloche and also lectured on atomic physics in Argentina.
He was a founder of the Psychophysical Society and became its president in 1954. Ehrenberg's interest in parapsychology is reflected in his numerous articles on its relation to physics, many of which were published in Psychophysikalische Zeitschrift.