Karlheinz Ballschmiter

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Karlheinz Ballschmiter (born May 20, 1937 in Petershagen , Kolberg-Körlin district ) is a German analytical chemist who has mainly researched the analysis of organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls , dioxins , (organochlorine) pesticides and their worldwide distribution and distribution. From 1973 until his retirement in 2005, Ballschmiter researched and taught at the University of Ulm . Colleagues speak of an “Ulm School of Analytics”.

Life

Ballschmiter attended school in Kolberg / Pomerania, Tempelburg / Pomerania, Oster-Ohrstedt in Schleswig-Holstein and Siegen . He graduated from the municipal high school in Siegen. In 1957 he began studying chemistry at the University of Mainz , where he was funded by the German National Academic Foundation. His doctoral thesis, which he wrote between 1963 and 1966 under Professor Günther Tölg , dealt with the metabolism of the insecticide thiodane . For this dissertation in 1966 he received the prize for the best doctoral thesis in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. As a postdoctoral fellow , he spent two years at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. In 1971 he completed his habilitation as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation for the subject of analytical chemistry in Mainz. The subject of the habilitation was chelates and their application for inorganic micro- and trace analysis . In 1973 he moved to the University of Ulm , where he became full professor of analytical chemistry and environmental chemistry and remained until his retirement.

In 1980, together with M. Zell, he identified almost all 209 congeners of the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) for the first time and proposed a structure-systematic nomenclature for the PCB, which has since been named after this "Ballschmiter / Zell nomenclature" (BZ nomenclature).

In addition to numerous individual scientific publications, he and Reiner Bacher wrote a monograph on the analysis and chemistry of dioxins .

Ballschmiter was involved in numerous scientific and non-scientific committees: for many years he was Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Ulm University ; he was a member of the Senate and chairman of the chemistry examination board. He also worked on the research advisory board of the state of Baden-Württemberg, was a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation for the field of analytical chemistry and was a member of the board of the Academy for Technology Assessment in Stuttgart. In the Society of German Chemists (GDCH) he was chairman of the analytical chemistry group. From 1975 to 1991 Ballschmiter worked as a local councilor in the Mähringen district of Ulm , where he has lived with his family since 1973.

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Publications (selection)

  • (Book together with Reiner Bacher): Dioxins: chemistry, analysis, occurrence, environmental behavior and toxicology of halogenated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans , Weinheim; New York, Basel, Cambridge, Tokyo: VCH, 1996, ISBN 3-527-28768-X .
  • Persistent, ecotoxic, and bioaccumulative compounds and their possible environmental effects in: Pure & Applied Chemistry, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 1771-1780, 1996.
  • Transport and whereabouts of organic compounds in a global context , in: Angewandte Chemie Vol. 104 (1992) pp. 501-528.
  • Polychlorobiphenyls: Chemie, Analytik und Umweltchemie , in: Analytiker-Taschenbuch, Springer-Verlag 1987, Vol. 7, 393-432.
  • K. Ballschmiter, M.Zell: Analysis of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) by Glass Capillary Gas Chromatography , in: Fresenius Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie 1980, 302, 20–31 (contains the BZ nomenclature).

Baseline Studies of the Global Pollution :

  • No. 1: Ballschmiter, K .; Zell, M .: Baseline Studies of the Global Pollution. I. Occurrence of Organohalogens in Pristine European and Antarctic Aquatic Environments In: International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry . 1980, 8, 15-35.
  • No. 17: Schreitmüller, J .; Ballschmiter, K .: Studies of Global Baseline Pollution. XVII. Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Lower Troposphere of the North- and South-Atlantic Ocean , Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 1994, 348, 226-239.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, his Ulm colleague Wolfgang Witschel is quoted in the press release of the University of Ulm on retirement .
  2. ↑ Article: Prize for Chemists , Südwestpresse , swp.de, accessed on November 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ballschmiter, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German analytical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen , Kolberg-Körlin district