Lutz Gade

Lutz Hans Gade (born February 18, 1963 in Bonn ) is a German chemist. He is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Gade studied at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1991 from the University of Cambridge under Jack Lewis . He then went to the University of Würzburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1996 and was a private lecturer. In 1998 he became Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg and Director of the Laboratory for Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis. In 2003 he became a professor in Heidelberg. There he was Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center SFB 623 (Molecular Catalysis).

He deals with organometallic chemistry , homogeneous catalysis and coordination chemistry (stereoselective catalysis) as well as functional dye chemistry .

He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and, since 2000, of the Institut universitaire de France , since 2019 of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz. In 1997 he received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize , in 1999 the Academy Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , the ADUC Prize in 1994 and the Gerhard Hess Prize in 1998 .

Fonts

• Coordination Chemistry, Wiley-VCH 1998
• Editor with P. Hofmann: Molecular Catalysts: Structure and Functional Design, Wiley-VCH 2014
• Editor: Dendrimer Catalysis, Topics in Organometallic Chemistry 20, Springer 2006

Web links

• Homepage Heidelberg University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of birth Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 2009
2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Lutz H. Gade at academictree.org, accessed on 7 February 2018th
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Lutz H. Gade. with picture. Member entry at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 3, 2016 .