© Dr. Galen Royer Frysinger
Fulbright Scholars in
Germany
1956 to
1958
Labore in aute et pariatur
After graduation and an extra summer when I
repeated my thesis work on another
compound, we left on the Bremen for a 10 day
sail from New York to Bremerhaven. Our
Fulbright year started on the Rhine in cold wet
September. On arriving in Göttingen we were
housed with a German family, the Ruprecht's,
for one month as part of an Experiment in
International Living indoctrination program. We
attended classes to learn better German and
about Germany.
Gallery
Galen and Elma Frysinger as Fulbright Scholars
My Life
My work at the Max Planck Institute for
physical chemistry, was with Prof. Bonhoeffer.
He has just come home from Moscow disputing
the theory of the electrochemical double layer with
Prof. Frumkin, so my problem was picked to do
some confirming lab work. I had a lot to learn
about electrochemistry. The learning went fast,
but the lab work slow. For my second year I applied
for and was awarded
a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
In lab at the Max Planck Institut
Max Plank Institute for Electrochemistry
Rented in this apartment house
Along the Liene Canal
Picked up a new VW bug at the factory
Before going home I had a chance to visit 24 different countries, including a car trip
to Greece and Turkey. While in Greece we took deck passage to Egypt and went on
tour with the German Student group. The tour was fantastic even though in the
German language. We met a few friends in Egypt who later visited with us in the
U.S. We came home through Spain and Portugal and on to the new location in
Chapel Hill, N.C.