Jens Nørskov

Jens Kehlet Nørskov (born September 21, 1952 in Denmark ) is a Danish chemist and physicist who specializes in catalysis .

Nørskov studied physics and chemistry at Aarhus University with a diploma in 1976 and received his doctorate in theoretical physics from BI Lundqvist in 1979. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM and at the Danish catalysis company Haldor Topsøe. In 1987 he became research professor at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby and in 1992 professor for theoretical physics. From 2010 he was a professor at Stanford University . He is Leland T. Edwards Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis. He is also Professor of Photon Science at SLAC , where he also headed the Chemistry Department from 2011 to 2014.

He is known for theoretical work on surfaces, catalysis, the electronic structure of materials and nanostructures, for example for computer models for heterogeneous catalysis, which have found applications in, for example, ammonia synthesis and fuel cells. He works on catalysis methods for the production of synthetic fuels from water and carbon dioxide with the help of sunlight. He studies how batteries and enzymes work.

In 2017 he was one of the Clarivate Citation Laureates in the field of chemistry and was one of the hundred most cited chemists of the 2000s on the Thomson-Reuters list. He is an honorary doctor of the TU Eindhoven and the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (NTNU).

He received the Research Prize of the Carlsberg Foundation in 2015, the Prize of the Danish Physical Society in 1990, the Grundfos Prize in 2007, the Irving Langmuir Award in 2015 , the Alwin Mittasch Prize and the Gabor Somorjai Award in 2009, and the Organic Reactions Murray Raney Award in 2016 Catalysis Society.

In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the Danish Academy of Engineering (1987) and the National Academy of Engineering (2014). In 1996 he became a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences . Since 2011 he has been an external member of the Academia Europaea .

In 2016, together with Tue Johannessen, Ulrich Quaade and Claus Hviid Christensen, he received the European Inventor Award in the small and medium-sized enterprises section for the development of a catalyst made from solid ammonia to reduce nitrogen monoxide in diesel engines.

Fonts (selection)

with B. Hammer: Why gold is the noblest of all the metals, Nature, Volume 376, 1995, p. 238
with B. Hammer: Electronic factors determining the reactivity of metal surfaces, Surface Science, Volume 343, 1995, pp. 211-220
with B. Hammer u. a .: CO chemisorption at metal surfaces and overlayers, Physical Review Letters, Volume 76, 1996, p. 2141
with F. Besenbacher u. a .: Design of a surface alloy catalyst for steam reforming, Science, Volume 279, 1998, pp. 1913-1915
with M. Mavrikakis, B. Hammer: Effect of strain on the reactivity of metal surfaces, Physical Review Letters, Volume 81, 1998, p. 2819
with B. Hammer, LB Hansen: Improved adsorption energetics within density-functional theory using revised Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functionals, Physical Review B, Volume 59, 1999, p. 7413
with B. Hammer: Theoretical surface science and catalysis — calculations and concepts, Advances in catalysis, Volume 45, 2000, pp. 71–129
with J. Rosslmeisl u. a .: Origin of the overpotential for oxygen reduction at a fuel-cell cathode, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 108, 2004, pp. 17886-17892
with N. Lopez a. a .: On the origin of the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles for low-temperature CO oxidation, Journal of Catalysis, Volume 223, 2004, pp. 232-235
with B. Hinnemann u. a .: Biomimetic hydrogen evolution: MoS2 nanoparticles as catalyst for hydrogen evolution, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 127, 2005, pp. 5308-5309
with V. Stamenkovic u. a .: Changing the activity of electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction by tuning the surface electronic structure, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 118, 2006, pp. 2963-2967
with J. Greeley a. a .: Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution, Nature Materials , Volume 5, 2006, p. 909
Editor with Anders Nilsson, Lars Petterson: Chemical Bonding at Surfaces and Interfaces, Elsevier 2007
with T. Bligaard a. a .: Towards the computational design of solid catalysts, Nature Chemistry, Volume 1, 2009, pp. 37-46
with J. Greeley a. a .: Alloys of platinum and early transition metals as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts, Nature Chemistry, Volume 1, 2009, pp. 552-556
with Felix Studt, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Thomas Bligaard: Fundamental concepts in heterogeneous catalysis, Wiley 2015

Web links

Website of his group in Stanford

Individual evidence

↑ From 2009 he was also on the supervisory board of Topsøe Fuel Cells
↑ Roster: Jens K. Nørskov. Academia Europaea, accessed January 18, 2018 .
↑ European Patent Office, European Inventor Award 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Nørskov, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nørskov, Jens Kehlet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denmark

[1] From 2009 he was also on the supervisory board of Topsøe Fuel Cells

[2] Roster: Jens K. Nørskov. Academia Europaea, accessed January 18, 2018 .

[3] European Patent Office, European Inventor Award 2016