Gerhard Lagaly

Gerhard Lagaly, 2003

Gerhard Lagaly (born October 14, 1938 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German chemist.

Lagaly studied chemistry (as well as physics, mineralogy and botany) at the University of Heidelberg from 1957, graduating in 1962. In 1967 he received his doctorate under Armin Weiss in Heidelberg at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry (investigation of swelling processes in n-alkylammonium layered silicates ), was from 1965 assistant at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1971 and was then an academic advisor. Since 1974 he was professor for inorganic chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel . In 2004 he retired.

He is primarily concerned with the chemistry of clay minerals, colloid chemistry and interface chemistry, the chemistry of porous substances and layered compounds.

In 2004 he received the Wolfgang Ostwald Prize from the Kolloid Society , of which he was managing director from 1979 to 2003. Lagaly was President of the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA) from 1999 to 2003. In 1995 he was Brindley Lecturer at the Clay Minerals Society. He is an honorary member of the French Society for Clay Minerals (Groupe Français des Argiles) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Szeged .

He was editor of Colloid and Polymer Science and Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science from 1987 to 2004 (and thereafter co-editor), was co-editor of Clay Minerals from 1982 to 1996 and of Applied Clay Science from 1985 to 1995 and its editor from 1995.

Fonts

• Karl Jasmund , Gerhard Lagaly (editor): Clay minerals and clays. Structure, properties, applications and use in industry and the environment . Steinkopf Verlag, Darmstadt 1993
• Lagaly, Oliver Schulz, Ralf Zimehl: Dispersions and emulsions: an introduction to the colloidics of finely divided substances including clay minerals , Darmstadt, Steinkopff 1997

Web links

• Homepage in Kiel