Hans Bock (chemist)

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Hans Bock (born October 5, 1928 in Hamburg ; † January 21, 2008 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Bock studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he obtained his doctorate on anhydrous hydrazine under Egon Wiberg in 1958 and habilitation in 1964 on phosphorus-containing diazenes . He then devoted himself to the practical applications of the HMO model for three years with Edgar Heilbronner at the ETH Zurich , which led to the standard work: The HMO model and its application , before he was appointed professor at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt in 1968 has been.

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The scientific work comprises more than 500 publications, which deal primarily with the representation of element organic compounds and the physical measurement methods for their characterization. Photoelectron spectroscopy for the detection of short-lived molecules was of particular interest .

Fonts

  • Edgar Heilbronner and Hans Bock: The HMO model and its application . Verlag Chemie
    • Volume 1: Basics and handling
    • Volume 2: Exercise examples with solutions
    • Volume 3: Tables of calculated and experimental quantities

Awards and honors

Bock received numerous honors and awards. Since 1977 he has been an "External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society and visiting professor at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Technical University of Munich . He received two honorary doctorates from the universities of Hamburg and Montpellier .

In 1987, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) awarded him the Wilhelm-Klemm-Prize donated by Degussa AG . Since 1991 he has been an elected member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy .

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Hans Bock at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Obituary by Heinrich Nöth ( PDF ).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Kaim : Hans Bock (1928–2008) . In: Angewandte Chemie . tape 120 , no. 16 , 2008, p. 2954–2954 , doi : 10.1002 / anie.200800607 .
  4. ^ Obituary by Wolfgang A. Herrmann ( PDF ).
  5. ^ Wilhelm-Klemm-Prize .
  6. ^ The members of the academy and the Junge Akademie deaths. The Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2008
Place of death Königstein im Taunus