Edgar Niecke

Edgar Niecke (2019)

Edgar Niecke (* 1939 in Berlin ) is a German chemist and until his retirement was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bonn .

Career

Niecke studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1969 under Oskar Glemser . After his habilitation in 1976 in Göttingen, he received a professorship for inorganic chemistry at the University of Bielefeld in 1977 and in 1986 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Bonn as successor to Rolf Appel . His research interests are mainly the synthesis, structure and reactivity of compounds of the element phosphorus in low coordination numbers with pioneering work on the case of the so-called double bond rule . He made other notable discoveries in the field of biradicals .

Edgar Niecke's students who embarked on a university career are Dietrich Gudat (University of Stuttgart), Rainer Streubel (University of Bonn), Rudolf Pietschnig (University of Kassel) and Thomas Baumgartner (York University).

Awards

• 1978 Lecturer grant from the Chemical Industry Fund
• 1997 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2001 Egon Wiberg Lecture Award ( LMU Munich )
• 2003 Zemplén Géza Medal from the Technical University of Budapest
• 2003 Arbuzov Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of phosphorus chemistry

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a special volume was published in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Werner: History of inorganic chemistry . Wiley-VCH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-33887-0 .
2. ↑ Helmut Werner: History of inorganic chemistry . Wiley-VCH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-33887-0 .
3. ↑ Helmut Werner: History of inorganic chemistry . Wiley-VCH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-33887-0 .
4. ↑ Helmut Werner: History of inorganic chemistry . Wiley-VCH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-33887-0 .
5. ^ Prices - University of Bonn. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Dietrich Gudat, Andreas Orthaber, J. Chris Slootweg, Rainer Streubel: Phosphorus Special Issue in Honor of Koop Lammertsma and Edgar Niecke . In: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry . tape 2019 , no. 11-12 , 2019, ISSN  1099-0682 , pp. 1437–1439 , doi : 10.1002 / ejic.201900192 .