Karl Wieghardt (chemist)

Karl Wieghardt (born July 25, 1942 in Göttingen ) is a German chemist and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr . He is the son of the physicist Karl Wieghardt and the grandson of the mathematician Karl Wieghardt .

life and work

Wieghardt studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1969. In 1972 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Geoff Sykes in Leeds, UK. 1974 followed the habilitation in chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. In 1975 he followed the call to the TU Hannover . From 1981 to 1994 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1994 he became director at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, which later became the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion . Wieghardt has been retired since 2010.

Wieghardt has received numerous prizes and awards. In 1995 he became the German-French Gay-Lussac - Humboldt - Research Award , 2000 with the Wilhelm Klemm Medal of the German Chemical Society , and in 2001 with the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London awarded, UK. In 2005 he received the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science . In 2006 he received the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry and was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He is an external member of the Chemical Research Society of India .

Research area

The focus of his work is the research and modeling of the complex chemistry of the metalloproteins of iron and manganese as well as the synthesis and determination of the electronic structure of compounds of transition metals with organic radical ligands and the investigation of magnetic interactions in polynuclear metal complexes.

literature

• Who is it , in: Nachrichten aus Chemie, Technik und Laboratorium , 44 (1996), No. 3, page 316 (article about Wieghardt)

Web links

• Literature by Karl Wieghardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wieghardt's homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chemistry Tree - Karl Wieghardt Details. In: academictree.org. Retrieved October 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion: Prof. Dr. Karl Wieghardt: Vita. In: www.cec.mpg.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 . 
3. ^ Member entry by Karl Wieghardt (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 27, 2016.
4. ↑ Honorary Fellows: Year 2001–2008. In: crsi.org.in. Retrieved October 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Information about Karl Wieghardt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 30, 2016.