Heinrich Nöth
Heinrich Nöth (born June 20, 1928 in Munich ; † June 26, 2015 there ) was a German chemist and from 1998 to 2005 President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was also President of the Society of German Chemists several times .
Life
Heinrich Nöth studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1949 . He worked at Egon Wiberg , made 1952 the diploma and was in Munich in 1954 with a thesis on hydrogen compounds of main group 3 of the Periodic Table of Elements to Dr. rer. nat. PhD .
After a brief activity in Great Britain as a postdoc at ICI in 1956, he returned to Munich in 1957. In 1962 he completed his habilitation at the LMU. In 1965 he was appointed to succeed Max Schmidt at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he also became director of the newly created Institute for Inorganic Chemistry . In 1969 he switched to his professorship for inorganic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as the successor to Egon Wiberg and Kurt Dehnicke became his successor in Marburg.
Even after his retirement in 1996, he continued to be involved at the university and also took on a visiting professorship in Mexico.
Nöth was a member of several scientific academies at home and abroad. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1975 and is its president from 1998 to 2005. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , ao. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and full member of the Academia Europaea . He was also a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech). The Society of German Chemists elected him twice as its President (1988/89 and 1992/93) and in 1995 as an honorary member. Since 1988 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum .
Nöth's main focus was the element boron and boron-nitrogen compounds. He has been called the "master of boron chemistry". In addition to various publications (his list of publications includes around 850 papers), he held 16 patents and did his doctorate over 150 doctoral students .
Awards and honors
- Alfred Stock Memorial Prize of the Society of German Chemists
- Honorary doctorate Dr. rer. nat. hc from the Philipps University of Marburg
- Honorary doctorate D. Sc. hc from the University of Leeds
- Bavarian constitutional medal in gold
- Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of London
- Honorary member of the Society of Austrian Chemists
- Honorary member of the Society of German Chemists
- 1991: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2006: Boron of Americas Medal from the Society of Boron Chemists
- 2009: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Nöth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical
- Article by Horst Fuhrmann about Nöth as President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (page 22) (PDF; 3.7 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ press release
- ^ Alpha forum: Heinrich Nöth
- ↑ a b c Speech by Günter Schmid on the occasion of the memorial event for Prof. Dr. Heinrich Nöth on October 23, 2014 (PDF file)
- ↑ a b Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present (PDF file)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Horst Fuhrmann |
President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1998 to 2005 |
Dietmar Willoweit |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nöth, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 2015 |
| Place of death | Munich |