Avelino Corma
Avelino Corma Canós (born December 15, 1951 in Moncófar , Province of Castellón ) is a Spanish chemist who deals with catalysis and especially heterogeneous catalysis for the petrochemical and other chemical industries. He is professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (Instituto de Tecnología Química, ITQ) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia .
Corma studied chemistry at the University of Valencia with the completion in 1973 and was at the University of Madrid with Antonio Cortés Arroyo on 1976 Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC) PhD . He was a post-graduate student at Queen's University . From 1987 he was a professor at the CSIC. At the Polytechnic in Valencia he was the founder of the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) in 1990 and director until 2010.
He dealt with the mechanisms of redox catalysis and acid-base catalysis and developed catalysts for the chemical industry, with which he works closely. This also includes zeolite catalysts. He used catalysts for cracking , desulfurization , isomerization , epoxidation , selective oxidation of alcohols and hydrogenation, among other things .
He has published over 1000 scientific articles and holds over 100 patents.
In 2011 he received the Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences , in 2010 the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry , in 2006 the Alwin Mittasch Prize , in 2009 a Humboldt Research Prize , in 1995 the Dupont Prize and the Spanish Technology Prize Leonardo Torres Quevedo, 2005 the Gold Medal of the Spanish Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society's GA Somorjai Prize in 2008 , the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize in 2010, the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2014 and the Blaise Pascal Medal in 2018 . He is honorary doctor in Bucharest, Ottawa, at the TU Delft and the TU Munich, in Alicante, Bochum, Utrecht, Valencia, among others. Corma is a Fellow of the Royal Society , the National Academy of Engineering , the Academia Europaea , the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Spanish Engineering Academy and the Académie des Sciences .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Avelino Corma at academictree.org, accessed on 28 January 2018th
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corma, Avelino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corma Canós, Avelino (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moncófar , Province of Castellón |