Jens Volker Kratz
Jens Volker Kratz (born May 26, 1944 in Jena ) is a German chemist . He is professor of nuclear chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . His work focuses on the synthesis and chemistry of the heaviest elements, the breakup spectroscopy of exotic atomic nuclei with the Aladin-LAND spectrometer, the interaction of actinides with humic acids and clay minerals, and the detection of trace elements by resonance ionization with lasers and subsequent time-of-flight mass spectroscopy (RIMS - Resonance ionization mass spectrometry ).
Life
As the son of the chemist Ludwig Kratz , Jens Volker Kratz studied chemistry from 1963 to 1971 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He spent his “post-doctoral period” from 1972 to 1974 in Berkeley with Glenn T. Seaborg . From 1974 to 1982 he was head of the nuclear chemistry group at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt . Since 1982 he has been Professor of Nuclear Chemistry in Mainz.
Jens Volker Kratz is co-editor of the specialist body Radiochimica Acta .
In 1998, together with Norbert Trautmann from the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry, Mainz, and Hans Blix, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- Jens Volker Kratz: Decay properties of short-lived arsenic and selenium isotopes and their yields from the fission of U-235 with thermal neutrons. Dissertation, Mainz 1971. Google Books .
- Jens Volker Kratz, Karl Heinrich Lieser: Nuclear and Radiochemistry, Fundamentals and Applications. 3rd Edition, September 2013, 2 volumes, ISBN 978-3-527-32901-4 , Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.
- Jens Volker Kratz: Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements , Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 29, 1995, No. 4
Web links
- Literature by and about Jens Volker Kratz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kratz, Jens Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nuclear chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena , Thuringia |