La vie est donc un feu pour la calorimétrie: half a century of calorimetry — Ingemar Wadsö at 70

Professor Ingemar Wadsö from the Division of Thermochemistry of the Chemical Center at the historical University of Lund in Sweden is the most important calorimetrist of the second half of the 20th century. In the way that Professor Edouard Calvet made Marseille a Mecca for calorimetrists in the middle of the last century, so Ingemar Wadsö did the same for Lund in its last part. In more than 200 publications encompassing nearly all fields of natural sciences — from simple chemical reactions to complex animal tissues and organelles — he promoted thermoanalytical investigations and their rigorous interpretation while contributing to quantitative as well as to analytical calorimetry. With about 35% of his papers in medicine and 25% in chemistry, the accents are clearly set. But it is the 17% of his publications concerning instrumental development and sophistication that made the name of I. Wadsö best known. His ampoule, batch, perfusion, titration and flow, heat conduction, microcalorimeters manufactured in Sweden by LKB Produkter AB and then by Thermometric AB, the company he founded with Jaak Suurkuusk, are found all over the world and established his most eminent contribution to this field of science.