Dietmar Seyferth

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Dietmar Seyferth (born January 11, 1929 in Chemnitz ; † June 6, 2020 ) was a German-American chemist ( organometallic chemistry ).

Seyferth was the son of a chemist and came with his family to the United States in 1933, where he studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received his bachelor's degree in 1951. He then continued his studies at Harvard University with a master’s degree in 1953 and a doctorate in 1955. Before completing his doctorate, he was at the Technical University of Munich with Ernst Otto Fischer in 1954/55 . In 1955/56 he worked as a research chemist at the silicone manufacturer Dow Corning Corp. in Midland, Michigan and then again at Harvard as an employee of Eugene G. Rochow . From 1957 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was assistant professor in 1959, associate professor in 1962 and professor in 1965. In 1962 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1977 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Since his dissertation, Seyferth has dealt with organometallic compounds, especially the main group elements lithium , zinc , mercury , boron , silicon , germanium , tin , lead , phosphorus and magnesium and the transition metals cobalt and iron . The Seyferth-Gilbert chain extension is named after him.

From 1964 to 1981 Seyferth was co-editor of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and in 1982 he was the founder and until 2010 editor of Organometallics . He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. Seyferth died in June 2020 as a result of a COVID-19 infection at the age of 91.

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  1. ↑ Dietmar Seyferth. In: The Boston Globe. Legacy.com, June 14, 2020, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Dietmar Seyferth (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ Danielle Randall Doughty: Dietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 91st Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 19, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020 .
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SURNAME Seyferth, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2020