Michael Veith (chemist)

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Michael Veith demonstrates the self-ignition of nanoscale iron particles
Michael Veith experimenting (2007) with the then Federal President Horst Köhler
Preparation of an experiment under weightlessness in September 2009
Awarded an honorary doctorate on October 15, 2008 in Toulouse

Michael Veith (born November 9, 1944 in Görlitz ) is a German chemist . He is professor emeritus for inorganic and general chemistry at the University of Saarland , Saarbrücken and until 2010 was scientific director at INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken.

Life

Michael Veith studied from 1964 to 1969 Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, where he followed his studies from 1969 to 1971 received his doctorate . His doctoral supervisor was Nils Wiberg . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe . In 1977 he received his habilitation there in the department of inorganic chemistry and then worked as a private lecturer. In 1979 he followed a call to the TU Braunschweig ( C3 professorship ) and in 1984 a call to the University of Saarland ( C4 professorship ). There he was Vice Dean from 1991 to 1992 .

In 1991 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Ecole Européenne d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux (EEIGM) in Nancy, France.

In addition to the scientific management of the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken since 2005, Michael Veith has held the chair for general and inorganic chemistry at the Saarland University since 1984. He is the initiator and spokesman of the first European graduate school in the natural sciences of the DFG with a focus on chemistry (Saarbrücken, Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg and Luxembourg, GRK 532). From 2002 to 2004 he was director of the France Center (Pôle France) at the Saarland University.

He is a member of many national and international committees and has already held several guest lectureships in the USA and France:

Since 1988 Veith has also given annual lectures at the École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux (ECPM) in Strasbourg.

Veith retired on April 23, 2010 . Today he is still the first chairman of the competence center cc-NanoChem e. V. - Active chemical nanotechnology for new materials , a position he has been filling since 2006.

Scientific work

Michael Veith deals, among other things, with the transfer of molecular chemistry into materials science, whereby the synthesis of the solid material is pre-determined by a tailor-made synthesis in the molecular starting material. With this method, very pure metal oxides, metal / metal oxide composites in a defined molar ratio, and metastable phases can be represented, the primary and secondary structures of which can be set on a nano and micrometer scale. The principles developed can be used to produce thin layers with a unique topology using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or sol-gel processes . The layers shown in this way are used in physics, cell biology or medicine.

Prizes and awards

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Michael Veith has published over 350 journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, books, and magazine articles.

The most cited publications:

Web links

Commons : Michael Veith  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The production of aluminum nanowires with an aluminum oxide shell under weightlessness
  2. Management. Archive of the France Center (Saarland University), accessed on September 7, 2012 .
  3. Leibniz Institute for New Materials: Farewell Colloquium Michael Veith ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. The winners of the Karl Winnacker Scholarship (PDF; 35 kB)
  5. Winner of the Academy Prize for Chemistry ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-goettingen.de
  6. List of Leibniz Prize winners since 1986 (PDF; 201 kB)
  7. ^ GDCh: Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig Lecture , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  8. Member entry by Prof. Dr. Michael Veith (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
  9. Member entry of Michael Veith at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017.
  10. idw announcement of October 10, 2009
  11. ^ List of the Wilhelm-Klemm-Prize winners