Andreas Kometz

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Andreas Kometz (* July 30, 1958 ; † ️ October 11, 2018 ) was a German chemist and chemistry teacher.

After attending school from 1965 to 1977, he began a teaching degree in 1980, which he supplemented with language studies in Portuguese. From 1985 to 1989 he worked as a subject teacher for chemistry and mathematics and was a class leader in the upper secondary school. From 1989 he was a research assistant with Rudi Kuhnert and Wolf-Dieter Legall in the chemistry didactics department at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ; In 1991 he became the acting head of this department, at the same time a member of several university committees. From 1993 he took the position of a scientific assistant in this department, which in the meantime was headed by Heinz Obst. In 1996 he did his doctorate at Obst und Legall with a chemistry didactic topic and held the position of scientific assistant there until 2002, before moving to Walter Jansen at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . From 2005 Kometz was professor for chemistry didactics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Kometz was the author of numerous specialist articles and specialist books as well as on the scientific advisory board of the journals Chemistry in School and Practice of Natural Sciences - Chemistry in School .

Individual evidence

  1. Obituaries of Andreas Kometz | trauer.nordbayern.de. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  2. Prof. Dr. Andreas Kometz. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Schmoll, Christine: Chemistry at the University of Halle (Saale) . Verl. For scientific and regional history Engel, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929134-17-9 .
  4. Prof. Dr. Andreas Kometz: Publications. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .