Draft:Heinz Walz

Inventor and founder Heinz Walz

Heinz Walz (* October 26, 1932 in Nuremberg - † October 21, 2015 in Effeltrich) was a German inventor and the founder of the Heinz Walz GmbH. He advanced the measurement of photosynthetic CO2 uptake by introducing his patented concept of flow-through measuring chambers combined with differential CO2 determination.[1] As entrepreneur, he made the pulse amplitude-modulated (PAM) chlorophyll fluorescence technique.[2][3] available for photosynthesis research.

  1. ^ Klein E, Koch W, Walz H (1969) Device for regulating and determining changes of a CO2 content in a climatic gas-exchange chamber. United States Patent Office 3,613,308. https://patents.google.com/patent/US3613308
  2. ^ Schreiber U, Schliwa U (1986) Fluorometer auf Impulsbasis. Deutsches Patentamt, DE 35 18 527 A1
  3. ^ [Schreiber U, Schliwa U, Bilger W (1986) Continuous recording of photochemical and non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching with a new type of modulation fluorometer. Photosynthesis Research 10: 51–62, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00024185]