Egon Uhlig
Fritz Egon Uhlig (born November 8, 1929 ; † June 21, 2009 ) was a German chemist who was known for his contributions to complex chemistry and was a professor for inorganic chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .
Life
Uhlig received his doctorate in 1954 in Leipzig under Leopold Wolf (on aromatic esters and ethers of triethanolamine and tetraethanolammonium hydroxide) with a topic from complex chemistry. He completed his habilitation in 1960 at the University of Leipzig (structure and complex chemical behavior of 2,5-diaminoterephthalic acid and its derivatives) and in 1962 became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in Jena. In 1995 he retired.
He dealt in particular with measuring complex chemistry (especially of subgroup elements ) and the influence of spatial arrangement and electron configuration on the structure and reaction of complexes. His research also found application in catalysis and the extraction of metals. He headed the complex chemistry division in the GDR research program.
In 1990 he organized the 28th International Conference on Coordinate Chemistry (ICCC) in Gera .
Since 1978 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and a member of the Leibniz Society . In 1983 he received the Clemens Winkler Medal and in 1985 the Medal of Honor from the Technical University in Bratislava. In 1993 he received the Hanus Medal of the Czech Chemical Society. He was co-editor of the Journal for General and Inorganic Chemistry .
He was president of the Philharmonic Society in Jena.
Fonts
- with Karl-Heinz Thiele and others: Reaction behavior and synthesis principles, Weinheim: Verlag Chemie 1973
- also published by Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig, 4th edition, 1989
literature
- Rüdiger W. Seidel: Egon Uhlig and the coordination chemistry in Jena, Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Volume 61, 2013, SS 533-534
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Uhlig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary at the Leibniz-Sozietät 2012 by Horst Hennig (PDF; 193 kB; German)
- Peter Hallpap, History of Chemistry in Jena, Materials (with references to work by Uhlig on the history of chemistry at the University of Jena; PDF; 136 kB; German)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Uhlig, Egon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uhlig, Fritz Egon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1929 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2009 |