Armin White
Armin Weiß (born November 5, 1927 in Stefling near Regensburg ; † December 7, 2010 in Munich ) was a German chemist , activist and politician .
life and work
From 1947 to 1951 he studied chemistry at the Universities of Regensburg, Würzburg and Munich. As a student of Ulrich Hofmann , he received his doctorate in 1953 at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the subject of reactions inside layered crystals .
Two years later he completed his habilitation with a contribution on cyanides of the transition elements. After Friedrich Seel had left Würzburg as associate professor for inorganic and analytical, Armin Weiß was his acting representative there around 1958. In 1961 he accepted an appointment as associate professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg . From 1965 to 1996 he was a full professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
From 1966 to 1986 he was editor of the Colloid Magazine and Magazine for Polymers . From 1967 to 1987 he was President of the Colloid Society , from 1978 to 1982 Vice President of the Association International pour l´Etude des Argiles and from 1979 to 1983 Vice President of the International Association of Colloid and Surface Scientists .
He became known in public for his campaign against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant . From 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , into which he entered as a non-party on the list of candidates of the Greens . In 2007 he received the Nuclear-Free Future Award for his life's work .
Around 360 publications resulted from his scientific work. Armin Weiß was the brother of Alarich Weiss .
Awards
- 1981: Liebig commemorative coin of the Society of German Chemists
- 1997: Thomas Graham Prize of the Colloid Society
- 2007: Nuclear-Free Future Award (honorary award for life's work)
- Prize for process engineering in textile finishing
- Doctor honoris causae University of Budapest
- Honorary member of the Spanish Society for Clays and Soil Minerals
Web links
- Literature by and about Armin Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Armin White
- Armin Weiß, 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award
- Klaus Beneke, Gerhard Lagaly: Armin Weiss on the occasion of his 75th birthday (short biography with bibliography of publications by Weiss, server of the University of Kiel, PDF; 189 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Greens parliamentary group of the Bavarian State Parliament of December 8th, 2010 ( Memento of the original of March 4th, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Klaus Koschel: The development and differentiation of the subject chemistry at the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 703–749; here: p. 736.
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↑ Brave fighter against the WAA - Professor Dr. Dr. Armin Weiß died at the age of 83 - Appreciation of the parliamentary group - ( Upper Palatinate Network of December 9, 2010)
↑ After the WAA fight, ready for the parliament - 25 years of Greens in the Maximilianeum. Armin Weiß from Upper Palatinate was one of the pioneers. He wrote an important chapter in the colorful party history. - ( Mittelbayerische Zeitung of October 14, 2011). - ^ Curriculum vitae on Armin Weiss' homepage .
- ↑ Winner: Armin Weiß ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - (Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation, accessed July 20, 2014)
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SURNAME | White, Armin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, activist and politician (independent), MdL |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stefling near Regensburg |
DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 2010 |
Place of death | Munich |