Daniel Belluš
Daniel Belluš (born March 8, 1938 in Trnava , Czechoslovakia , † September 18, 2011 in Basel ) was a Slovak - Swiss chemist . He was research director in the chemical industry in Basel, honorary professor at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and a member of several scientific advisory boards in Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Life
After six years of study, Belluš obtained his master's degree and doctorate in chemistry from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in 1967 . From 1967 to 1969 he continued his studies as a postdoc at the ETH Zurich .
From 1969 to 1996 Belluš held positions of increasing responsibility at Ciba-Geigy and Ciba Specialty Chemicals in Basel, most recently as global research director. More than fifty international patents name him as an inventor, and he was also the author or co-author of numerous scientific papers on the synthesis and use of compounds for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
From 1997 to 2012 he was President and CEO of "Bellus Science and Innovation, International Consulting" in Riehen and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Research Foundation for Specialty Industry Basel (Switzerland).
From 1980 Belluš taught as an honorary professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Friborg (Switzerland). In the 1990s he founded the scientific forum Ciba Lectures, later renamed Novartis Lectures in Central Europe (Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, later Warsaw and Russia) as a network meeting for scientists, Nobel Prize winners and professors from Europe, the USA and Japan.
Daniel Belluš was married to the Slovak-Swiss chemist Miriam Belluš-Nowak, and both had two daughters.
Memberships
- Swiss Chemical Society
- American Chemical Society
- Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
- Slovak Chemical Society
- Foundation for Discovery-to-Business Transfer (Basel)
Awards
- Science Prize of the City of Basel; awarded by the Basel government in 1982
- Dr. hc from the University of Bratislava
- Gold Medal of the Slovak Chemical Society (1993)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (1996)
- Honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University (Prague) (1997)
- Foreign Fellow of the Japan Society for the Advancement of Science (1999)
- Hungarian Humboldt Prize (2008)
- Order of Merit of the Slovak Republic presented by President Ivan Gašparovič 2010
literature
- Beat Ernst: Daniel Belluš (1938–2011). In: Angewandte Chemie. 123, 2011, pp. 11232-11233, doi: 10.1002 / anie.201107084 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Belluš Basel
- ↑ Daniel Belluš member of the editorial board from the publisher Thieme
- ↑ Chimia 2010, 64, no. 1/2, page 7 , accessed on May 8, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Daniel Belluš ed. Science of Synthesis
- ↑ Daniel Belluš Amazon
- ↑ Daniel Belluš Specialty Chemicals Research Foundation Basel
- ^ Daniel Bellus in Businessweek
- ↑ Daniel Belluš at Millipore
- ↑ Gerardo M. Ramos Tombo, Daniel Belluš: Chirality and Plant Protection . In: Angewandte Chemie. 103, 1991, pp. 1219-1241, doi: 10.1002 / ange.19911031004 .
- ^ Honorary doctorate from the University of Bratislava for Daniel Belluš ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ honorary doctorate by Daniel Belluš at the Czech Technical University in Prague ( Memento of 8 August 2014 Internet Archive )
- ↑ Daniel Belluš: fascination of chance in science in 2008 ( Memento of 10 October 2015, Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belluš, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak-Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trnava , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Basel |