398:, also becoming Director of the Humboldt's Physical Chemistry Institute. His predecessor's academic career (followed a few months later by his party membership) had been abruptly terminated following a series of lectures in 1963/64 which had been interpreted as a call to remove political dogma from science teaching. In this instance Landsberg's dissident predecessor was
371:(a higher academic distinction) in 1958/59. On this occasion his dissertation was entitled "On the kinetics of concealed processes with nickel and zinc anodes" In 1959 he became a professor at the same institution. Then, in January 1962, Rolf Landsberg was appointed Rector of the
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family. However, Max
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British army, with which he worked for the next three years, notably as a simultaneous translator, until September 1947. Postings included
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of what remained of
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