Klaus Gustav Heumann

Klaus Gustav Heumann , also Klaus-Gustav, (* 1940 ) is a German chemist ( analytical chemistry ) and professor emeritus for analytical chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . He dealt in particular with mass spectrometry .

Life

Heumann received his doctorate at the TU Darmstadt and from 1974 was Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Regensburg . From 1996 until his retirement in 2005 he was a professor in Mainz. He deals with analytical methods for the detection of trace elements, including the use of mass spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-MS), thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) and various methods of optical atomic spectroscopy and electroanalysis in connection with separation methods such as high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and Capillary Gas Chromatography. He developed mass spectrometric methods such as IDMS (Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry) and NTI-MS (Negative Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry). Your NTI-MS had applications on rhenium osmium chronometers . He is active in environmental analysis as well as the global analysis of the distribution of alkylated heavy metals and halogens and their biological origin.

In 2005 he received the Clemens Winkler Medal . He received the Océ van der Grinten Award for Environmental Analysis and the European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry. From 1991 to 1995 he was chairman of the IUPAC commission for atomic weights and isotope abundance and was a member of the IUPAC section for inorganic chemistry for four years.

With Ekkehard Fluck he is editor of the table on the periodic table of the elements at Wiley-VCH.

Web links

• Brief biography among the editors of Analytic and Bioanaltyic Chemistry, Springer