Ernst Bayer

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Ernst Bayer (born March 24, 1927 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † January 31, 2002 ) was a German chemist and science manager and an important representative of organic chemistry in Germany at the time.

Life

Ernst Bayer received his doctorate in 1954 under Richard Kuhn and completed his habilitation in 1958 at the University of Karlsruhe . Then he was a lecturer at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe with Rudolf Criegee . In 1962 he was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen , and in 1964 he became professor there. From 1967 to 1970 he was also "Robert A. Welch Professor" for chemistry at the University of Houston in Texas.

Bayer was one of the first scientists in Germany to introduce the gas chromatography (GC) method in the 1950s . He was involved in numerous methodological improvements of the GC. He also developed his own method for the synthesis of peptides using soluble polymers. Furthermore, he had developed a process for the extraction of petroleum products from sewage sludge by "catalytic low-pressure conversion". Using gas chromatography, he succeeded in separating aromatic substances in wine for the first time, which is why he was also head of research at what was then the Federal Research Institute for Vine Breeding in Geilweilerhof for a while .

For many years from 1982 Bayer was chairman of the GDCh's advisory committee for environmentally relevant waste materials (BUA) , an advisory body that is important for chemicals law , contaminated sites and environmental policy .

One of his students said that Bayer was always able to pursue “two thoughts at the same time”. He was also famous for initially leading meetings on the "long leash" and only surprisingly defining the essential points.

The Separation Science working group of the GDCh has been awarding the Ernst Bayer Prize for outstanding publications in the field of separation techniques for analytical purposes since 2003 .

Positions in the Society of German Chemists (GDCh)

  • Vice-President 1993–1995 of the GDCh
  • Chairman of the Chromatography Working Group
  • Chairman of the Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Section from 1995 to 1999
  • Member of the board of the GDCh section for analytical chemistry
  • 1982 to 1997: Chairman of the "Advisory Committee for Environmentally Relevant Existing Substances" (BUA)

Offices at the University of Tübingen

  • Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry
  • Dean of the Faculty, Vice President of the University and President of the Senate

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Ernst Bayer in academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018th
  2. ^ Ernst Bayer Prize of the AK Separation Science

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2002