Kurt Dehnicke

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Kurt Dehnicke (born April 22, 1931 in Cologne , † January 16, 2011 in Marburg ) was a German chemist .

Life

Kurt Dehnicke studied after graduating from high school at the Leipzig Petri School from 1950 to 1954 chemistry at the University of Leipzig . In 1957 he was at Josef Goubeau with the subject to behavior of boron trifluoride of amino acid and peptide bonds at the Technical University of Stuttgart to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . After his habilitation in Stuttgart, he was appointed to the chair for inorganic chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg as the successor to Heinrich Nöth in 1967 and became director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry in 1968 . Dehnicke was the last dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and with the reorganization in 1971 he became the founding dean of the two departments of chemistry and physical chemistry.

In his main research and teaching areas of halogen and pseudo- halogen chemistry , coordination and organometallic chemistry , he was one of the world's leading chemists. After his retirement he devoted himself particularly to the chemistry of beryllium . He published over 800 publications.

Prizes and awards

  • Wilhelm Klemm Prize (1989)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig (1996)
  • Historic city seal of the University of Marburg for the "Marburger Chemikum", a unique training facility for children and young people (2010)

literature

  • Who is who ?: The German Who's Who, Volume 46, 2000, p. 223

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Kurt Dehnicke at academictree.org, accessed on 29 January 2018th
  2. ↑ Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present day (PDF file)
  3. ^ Konrad Krause: Alma mater Lipsiensis: History of the University of Leipzig from 1409 to the present , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2003.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Kurt Dehnicke receives the city seal of the university town of Marburg (with picture). In: Chemikum Marburg / Nachrichten, December 2, 2010, accessed on April 18, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Dehnicke, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2011
Place of death Marburg