Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann (born June 11, 1957 in Neuwied ) is a German chemist .
Life
After graduating from high school, Herbert Waldmann studied chemistry at the University of Mainz from 1976 onwards at Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Neuwied and completed his doctoral thesis in 1985 with Horst Kunz . He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with George Whitesides , Cambridge, USA. He completed his habilitation from 1986 to 1991 at the University of Mainz . Shortly afterwards he was offered a professorship for organic chemistry at the University of Bonn. In 1993 he took over a chair for organic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe . Since 1999 he has headed the Chemical Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund and is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dortmund . In 2007 he was also the “Managing Director” of the “Center of Advanced European Studies and Research” ( caesar research center ) in Bonn.
Honourings and prices
He has been honored with numerous scientific awards for his work:
- 1982: Adolf Todt Award.
- 1986: Friedrich Weygand Award for the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry.
- 1986: Award of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
- 1991: ADUC Habilitation Prize.
- 1992: Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize from the Society of German Chemists .
- 1992: Lecturer-Price of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie .
- 1997: Steinhofer Prize of the Steinhofer Foundation, University of Freiburg.
- 2001: Otto Bayer Prize
- 2003: Max Bergmann Medal
- 2004: FC Donders Professorship, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2004
- 2004: President of the Bürgenstock Conference
- 2004: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2005: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2006: Glaxo SmithKline Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Chemical Biology
- 2009: Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2010: Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal
- 2012: Emil Fischer Medal
- 2014: Honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden
- 2017: Paul Karrer Lecture
- 2020: Liebig commemorative coin
Member of the “Editorial Board” of
- Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
- Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
- Chemical Communications
- ChemBioChem
- European Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Chemical Biology & Drug Design
- ChemMedChem
- Current Chemical Biology
- Applied Chemistry (2010 to 2017)
Web links
- Homepage at the MPI
- Herbert Waldmann at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- CV on the MPI homepage
- Publications
Individual evidence
- ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Neuwied, accessed on April 11, 2018.
- ^ Member entry by Herbert Waldmann (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
- ^ Technical University Dortmund, Faculty of Chemistry, News from the Faculty , Archive, October 18, 2010 .
- ↑ a b GDCh Awards 2020 / DBG Awards 2020 . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . June 11, 2020, doi : 10.1002 / anie.202005849 ( wiley.com ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldmann, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuwied |