Gerhard Stöcklin

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Gerhard Ludwig Stöcklin (born July 7, 1930 in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf , † March 15, 2003 in Cologne ) was a German nuclear chemist . Until his retirement in 1994, he was a full professor at the University of Cologne and director of the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry at the Jülich Research Center (North Rhine-Westphalia).

Life

Gerhard Stöcklin was the first child of the chemist Paul Stöcklin, who worked in Leverkusen in rubber research at Bayer AG , and his wife Ruth geb. Endress born. After childhood and youth in Opladen , he studied chemistry at the Universities of Bonn , Cologne and Mainz .

In 1960 he received his doctorate from the radiochemist Wilfried Herr (a student of Otto Hahn ) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

From 1961 to 1963 Stöcklin was a Research Associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory with A. Wolf on Long Island near New York. In 1964 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne, and at the same time Stöcklin took up his work at what was then the Jülich nuclear research facility ( KFA ), initially as a department head at Herr, who headed the radiochemistry work group there, and from 1969 as director of the Institute for Radiochemistry. After the focus of the scientific work was initially on nuclear research for reactor technology, the radiopharmaceutical realignment of the institute followed in the mid-1970s, initially in close cooperation with the Institute for Medicine at the KFA. A research focus of the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry was the development of radioactive marking substances (tracers) for positron emission tomography (PET) for medical investigation purposes (special radiosynthesis forms of FDG ( fluorodeoxyglucose ), iodine-α-methyltyrosine, cyclotron production of radiopharmaceuticals) . The institute did pioneering work in the field of the detection of heart and brain diseases.

In 1994, after his retirement, Gerhard Stöcklin left Jülich and was a visiting professor at the Technical University (TU) in Munich until 1997 .

From 1998 to 2001, Stöcklin acted as founding director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Isotope Research in Leipzig at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf .

Publications

  • Gas chromatographic investigation of Szilard-Chalmers reactions in alkyl bromides . Mainz 1960
  • On the chemistry of nucleogenic carbon atoms . Cologne 1965
  • Chemistry hot atoms. Chemical reactions as a result of core processes . Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1969, French translation 1972
  • Published in: Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron-Emission-Tomography , 1993
  • Co-editor of the Journal of Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Associate editor of Radiochimica Acta magazine
  • Numerous specialist publications on radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry

honors and awards

  • 1990 Honorary Doctorate from Kossuth University Debrecen (Hungary)
  • 1998 Bequerel Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 1999 Honorary member of the Swiss Society for Nuclear Medicine (SGNM)
  • 2000 honorary member of the German Society for Neurology (DGN)
  • 2001 Paul Aebersold Award from the American Society of Nuclear Medicine

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Radiochemistry in Jülich: From a bumpy start to PET , Aachener Nachrichten, September 10, 2013 (accessed on July 8, 2014)
  2. ^ The Becquerel Medal Award
  3. ^ Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients
personal data
SURNAME Stöcklin, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stöcklin, Gerhard Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nuclear chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen-Wiesdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2003
Place of death Cologne