Bernhard Welz (chemist)

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Bernhard Welz (born October 5, 1936 in Augsburg ; † June 3, 2018 in Florianópolis , Brazil ) was a German chemist who worked as a chemistry professor in Brazil . He was the author of numerous publications in the field of atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS).

Life

Bernhard Welz studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and later did his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart , where he received the academic degree Dr. rer. nat. received. Between 1967 and 1998 he worked as an analyst and research manager in the field of atomic spectrometry at PerkinElmer ( Überlingen ).

Welz accepted a position as visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in 1999 and has since lived in Florianópolis (Brazil), where he taught instrumental analysis and AAS.

Welz was a member of the

He has also served on the editorial board of Spectrochimica Acta Part B , Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, and Talanta .

Awards (selection)

  • 1982 - Senior Scientist (PerkinElmer)
  • 1988 - Jana Marcus Marci Medal (Czechoslovak Spectroscopic Society)
  • 1988 - Pergamon / Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award
  • 2006 - Clemens Winkler Medal (GDCh)

Works & publications (selection)

  • Atomic spectrometric trace analysis (editor), Wiley-VCH 1998, 564 pp., German, 4th edition, ISBN 3-527-26027-7 .
  • High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS (co-author), Wiley-VCH 2006, 296 pp., English, ISBN 3-527-60637-8 .
  • Atomic absorption spectrometry (co-author), Wiley-VCH 2012, 1020 S., German, 4th edition, ISBN 3-527-66090-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: suedkurier.de. Südkurier, June 9, 2018, accessed June 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b ChemViews: 75th Birthday: Bernhard Welz. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, October 5, 2011, accessed on October 29, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ B. Welz, H. Becker-Ross, S. Florek, U. Heitmann: High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS . The Better Way to Do Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. Wiley-VCH, 2006, ISBN 978-3-527-60637-5 , pp. 296 (English).
  4. ↑ BioForum Applied Knowledge Center: Dr. Bernhard Welz. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013 ; accessed on October 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Chemical Department of the UFSC. QMC of Federal University of Santa Catarina (submenu: “Docentes”). Ministry of Education (MEC) - Brazil, 2009, accessed October 29, 2013 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy Editorial Board. Editorial Advisory Board. Elsevier, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  7. ↑ PWJM Boumans: Pergamon / spectrochimica acta atomic spectroscopy award 1988 . In: Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy . 43, No. 12, 1988, pp. 1405-1406. LCCN  74-016632 , OCLC 1766329 . doi : 10.1016 / 0584-8547 (88) 80177-0 . "Spatially and temporally resolved gas phase temperature measurements in a Massmann-type graphite furnace using coherent anti-Stokes Raman sacattering, pp. 1187-1207 "
  8. ^ GDCh, Board of Directors of the Analytical Chemistry Section: Clemens Winkler Medal (list of previous award winners). Retrieved on October 29, 2013 : “2006 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Welz, Florianópolis SC / Brazil. "
personal data
SURNAME Welz, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2018
Place of death Florianópolis , Brazil