Herbert Grunt
Herbert Grunze (born April 4, 1923 in Berlin ; † December 2, 1998 there ) was a German chemist ( inorganic chemistry ).
Life
Grunze studied chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1946, graduating in 1952 and gaining a doctorate in 1955. He then went to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, completed his habilitation in 1960 and was professor at the Humboldt University from 1964. 1967 to 1971 he was director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and 1974 to 1980 director of the Central Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.
He dealt with phosphorus compounds, including polymeric phosphates, methods of analysis of condensed phosphates via paper chromatography and phosphorus-chlorine compounds (pure preparation of dichlorophosphoric acid in 1959 and of pyrophosphoryl chloride in 1963). He was a member of the Leopoldina . In 1973 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and in 1982 he received the Clemens Winkler Medal .
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 180
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Herbert Grunze at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 7, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunt, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1998 |
| Place of death | Berlin |