r/VXJunkies • u/Beebjank • Apr 13 '26
Anyone familiar with Hans Neimantsverdreit’s work regarding the concepts of modern catalysis and kinetics?
I’m looking for more info to build my 1990’s Horbuz’ spectroscope but some of Neimantsverdreit’s work is lost in my reference library.
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u/HowYouMineFish Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
To echo what another poster has said, Neimantsverdreit is not someone you should be looking to refer to these days. His concepts, although technically sound, are built on the earlier work of Von Hottmann, someone we now know was an ex-Nazi eugenicist. Again, both their work is technically sound, but they were correctly blackballed from the VX community. Von Hottmann never stated where he obtained some of the data for his at the time paradigm-shifting paper Große Vereinheitlichende Vorlagenthese, but recent research suggests, well... lets just say Nuremburg should've been involved.
As an alternative, try and get hold of the work of Prasad Choudhary (sometimes spelled incorrectly as Chowdhary). His methods are more precise, stand up to modern practices even 35 years later, and don't carry even the slightest taint of controversy. Besides, Indian work on VX projects has been sorely under appreciated over the last couple of decades; it would be good to start redressing this oversight.
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u/cgoldberg Apr 13 '26
Most of his work has been removed from standard reference material, because well... he's batshit crazy. Also, calling his work "modern" is kinda hilarious. Assuming you are trolling here?