Helmut Knözinger

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Helmut Knözinger (born July 10, 1935 in Weilheim in Oberbayern ; † January 12, 2014 ) was a German physicist and chemist .

Life

Knözinger studied physics at the University of Munich from 1953 to 1957 . In 1961 he received his doctorate in physical chemistry . From 1962 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Munich; In 1967 he completed his habilitation. From 1967 to 1971 he was a private lecturer, 1971 university lecturer and from 1973 adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980 he was offered a professorship for physical chemistry. He was visiting professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela , Caracas (1968/69), the Xiamen University , Xiamen, PR China, (1985), the Northwestern University , Evanston, USA, (1988), the Universiteit van Amsterdam , Amsterdam, Netherlands, (1989) and several times at the Université Marie et Pierre Curie , Paris, (1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003).

Act

The main research areas of Knözinger were surface spectroscopy , surface chemistry , heterogeneous catalysis with special emphasis on the structural characterization of supported oxide, sulfide and metal catalysts; Carbon monoxide - hydrogenation ; Hydrotreating ; DeNOx ; solid super acids ; selective oxidation ; basic zeolites ; catalytic sensors .

Knözinger was a member of numerous national and international organizations. He was also co-editor and member of the editorial boards of important specialist publications. Together with Gerhard Ertl and Jens Weitkamp , he published a five-volume encyclopedia on the subject of "Heterogeneous Catalysis" ( Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis ), which has become a standard work in this field. In total he wrote about 440 publications, including 80 review articles and 24 book chapters or books, plus 3 patents; his work has been cited more than 13,000 times.

honors and awards

  • Richard Zsigmondy Fellowship, 1975
  • German Colloid Society
  • Ciapetta Lectureship, 1980
  • North American Catalysis Society
  • Ipatieff Lectureship, 1988
  • Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
  • Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1995
  • Max Planck Research Prize , 1995
  • Prix ​​Gay-Lussac / A. v. Humboldt, 1997
  • Alwin Mittasch Medal , DECHEMA , 1998
  • Member of the Academia Europaea , 2000
  • Honorary Professorship, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2004

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Che, Gerhard Ertl: Helmut Knözinger (1935-2014) (obituary), in: Angewandte Chemie , 126, 2014, 40, pp. 10751-10752, doi : 10.1002 / anie.201407227 , p. 10751.
personal data
SURNAME Knözinger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and surface chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilheim in Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2014