Herbert W. Roesky

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herbert W. Roesky

Herbert Walter Roesky (born November 6, 1935 in Laukischken , East Prussia ) is a German chemist .

Life

Herbert Walter Roesky received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1963 . After a postdoc at DuPont in Wilmington ( Delaware , USA ) , he completed his habilitation in 1967. Roesky was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1971 to 1980 , and Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry from 1973 to 1976. In 1980 he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1985 to 1987 he was dean of the chemistry department. In 2004 he becameretired . Herbert Roesky’s son Peter Roesky (* 1967) is also a professor of chemistry and now works at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Act

Roesky is best known for his work in the field of fluorine compounds, sulfur-nitrogen heterocycles, and work in the transition area between classical inorganic coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry. He did pioneering work in the field of metallophosphazenes.

He has published numerous publications, including over 700 publications in internationally renowned journals.

Roesky was in international demand as a scientist. He was visiting professor at Auburn University (1984), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1987), the University of Kyoto (1992) and the University of Iowa (1995). He taught as visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer 1995) and at Texas A&M University (Frontier Lecturer 1995). In 2004 he became adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University and honorary professor at Central South University in Changsha , China . An honorary professorship at Peking University followed in 2005 and an associate professorship at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay IIT in 2006 . From 2002 to April 2008 Roesky was President of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Honors and memberships

Science awards

Honors

Memberships

Fonts

  • Chemical cabinet items. Spectacular experiments and witty quotes by Herbert W. Roesky and Klaus Möckel, 331 pages, Verlag Wiley-VCH; Edition: 2nd, corr. Reprint (November 2000), ISBN 3-527-29426-0
  • Highlights of chemical experimental art by Herbert W. Roesky, 236 pages, Verlag Wiley-VCH; Edition 1 (January 2006), ISBN 3-527-31511-X
  • Chemie en miniature by Herbert W. Roesky, 248 pages, Verlag Wiley-VCH (November 2001), ISBN 3-527-29564-X

Web links

Commons : Herbert Roesky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Roesky (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Roesky, Herbert W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roesky, Herbert Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Laukischken ( East Prussia )