Jochen Block

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Jochen H. Block (born April 21, 1929 in Stettin ; † July 23, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German physical chemist . From 1969 until his death, Block was a "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and director of a department there. Block researched mainly with field ion analysis methods on catalytically relevant surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis .

Jochen Block studied chemistry, in 1951 he obtained his diploma from the solid-state chemist Karl Hauffe at the University of Greifswald . He did his doctorate in 1954 at the University of Munich under Georg-Maria Schwab , and in 1959 he completed his habilitation in Munich. From 1966 he worked at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, in 1969 he was appointed Scientific Member and Director at the Fritz Haber Institute, where he headed the "Interface Reactions" department. "In the 1970s his department became the center for a number of field ion analysis methods that are unique in the world." Its results have been published in over 300 publications. The German Catalysis Society has been awarding the Jochen Block Prize since 1997 to promote young scientists in the field of catalysis .

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  1. N. Ernst, Alexander M. Bradshaw : Jochen H. Block ( 1929-1995 ) , in: Physikalische Blätter 52 (1996), No. 1, page 49. doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19960520114 (free full text)
  2. Page about the Jochen Block Prize of the German Catalysis Society