TY - JOUR A1 - Leisegang, T. A1 - Levin, A.A. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas T1 - From the Ritter pile to the aluminum ion battery– Peter Paufler’s academic genealogy JF - Zeitschrift für Kristallographie N2 - This article highlights Peter Paufler’s academic genealogy on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We describe the academic background since 1776, which covers 11 generations of scientists: Ritter, Ørsted, Hansteen, Keilhau, Kjerulf, Brøgger, Goldschmidt, Schulze, Paufler, Meyer, and Leisegang. The biographies of these scientists are described in spotlight character and references to scientists such as Dehlinger, Ewald, Glocker, Röntgen, Vegard, Weiss, and Werner are given. A path is drawn that begins in the Romanticism with electrochemistry and the invention of what is probably the first accumulator. It leads through the industrialization and the modern geology, mineralogy, and crystallography to crystal chemistry, metal and crystal physics and eventually returns to electrochemistry and the aluminum-ion accumulator in the era of the energy transition. The academic genealogy exhibits one path of how crystallography develops and specializes over three centuries and how it contributes to the understanding of the genesis of the Earth and the Universe, the exploration of raw materials, and the development of modern materials and products during the industrialization and for the energy transition today. It is particularly characterized by the fields of physics and magnetism, X-ray analysis, and rare earth compounds and has strong links to the scientific landscape of Germany (Freiberg) and Scandinavia, especially Norway (Oslo), as well as to Russia (Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg). The article aims at contributing to the history of science, especially to the development of crystallography, which is the essential part of the structural science proposed by Peter Paufler. KW - Academic genealogy KW - Crystallography KW - Festschrift KW - Physics KW - Structural science PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-515254 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2020-0063 SN - 2196-7105 VL - 235 IS - 11 SP - 481 EP - 511 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-51525 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -