Jürgen Smidt

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Jürgen Smidt is a German chemist who played a key role in the development of the Wacker-Hoechst process at Wacker Chemie from 1956 to 1962 (with Walter Hafner , Reinhard Jira).

Smidt received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1948 (on a condensation product from butyraldehyde).

Around 1963 he was director of Wacker Chemie.

In 1982 he and Walter Hafner received the Karl Ziegler Prize and in 1962 the DECHEMA Prize for the Wacker process.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In its research department Consortium for Electrochemical Industry .
  2. ↑ Wacker Process Can Make Acetone, MEK. In: Chemical & Engineering News. 41, 1963, pp. 50-51, doi : 10.1021 / cen-v041n027.p050 .
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century