Friedrich Rudolf Heinrich Carl Moll (31 January 1882 – 8 May 1951) was a German wood specialist who worked on preserving wood in mines and shipping and naval applications.
Biography
editMoll was born in Culm, West Prussia and worked as a shipwright before training in shipbuilding at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1902. He then worked on English trawlers, and in 1909, he wrote a dissertation examining the disappearance of trawlers. He examined the application of mercury chloride to preserving telephone poles. In 1920, he received a doctorate from the University of Berlin for work on fungi and their control. He then worked as a lecturer in the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1922 to 1936. He worked on treatments against shipworms. [1][2]
References
edit- ^ Moll, F.; Roch, F. (1937). "Die geographische Verbreitung der Terediniden Afrikas". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin). 22 (2): 161–189. doi:10.1002/mmnz.19370220202.
- ^ Moll, F. (1926). "The history of wood-preserving in shipbuilding". The Mariner's Mirror. 12 (4): 357–374. doi:10.1080/00253359.1926.10655387. ISSN 0025-3359.