Hans Wolfgang Spiess

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Hans Wolfgang Spiess (born October 14, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German chemist. Until his retirement he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.

Spiess received his doctorate in physical chemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under Hermann Hartmann in 1968 . As a post-graduate student , he was with Raymond K. Sheline at Florida State University . From 1970 he worked in the molecular physics department of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, where he dealt with high-resolution NMR in solids and liquids. In 1975 he went to the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Mainz to Hans Sillescu and completed his habilitation there in 1978. In 1981/82 he was Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Münster and from 1983 Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth . From 1984 he was director at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz.

He deals with NMR methods and studies to elucidate the structure, dynamics and phase behavior of synthetic macromolecules (polymers) and supramolecular structures.

Prizes, awards and medals

In 2002 he received the Liebig Memorial Medal and the Ampere Prize, in 2010 the Paul J. Flory Research Prize, in 2005 the Walter Nernst Medal and in 1988 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . He is an honorary doctor in Cluj-Napoca in Romania and at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and an honorary professor at the East China Normal University in Shanghai. In December 2011 Spiess received the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1991/92 he was chairman of the European Polymer Federation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see press release of the MPI for Polymer Research "Rhineland-Palatinate honors Hans Wolfgang Spiess with Order of Merit" , see also laudation on Spiess of the State Chancellery, download, PDF ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).


personal data
SURNAME Spiess, Hans Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main