Peter Botschwina

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Peter Botschwina (born May 4, 1948 in Göppingen ; † December 27, 2014 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist . He was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen and co-author of the Römpp Lexikon Chemie .

Live and act

After school and two years of military service in the Federal Air Force, he began studying chemistry in Stuttgart in 1969 and finished it in 1974. From 1971 to 1976 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate in 1980 from Wilfried Meyer . In 1985 he completed his habilitation. In 1987 he became a temporary university professor ( C2 ) at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern . He then taught at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1990 to 1993 as a C3 professor for theoretical chemistry and was there from 1993 to 2014 as a C4 professor for theoretical chemistry. From 1996 to 1998 he was dean of the chemistry department. In 2001 he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In the years from 2002 to 2005 again from 2012 to 2014 he was director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry. From 2005 to 2007 he was chairman of the Senate Commission for Research at the University of Göttingen. From 2003 to 2013 he was chairman of the Society of German Chemists in the Göttingen branch.

Botschwina is considered to be one of the founders of modern theoretical molecular spectroscopy . As the direct successor of the Hückel student Werner A. Bingel , he was able to use astrospectroscopy to predict the oscillation frequencies of the fundamental transitions of numerous carbon chains, to answer fundamental questions about the existence of interstellar molecules . In addition to his intensive teaching and research activities, his membership in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences contributed to re-establishing Göttingen as a center of theoretical chemistry.

In his working group, methods and programs have been developed that enable anharmonic vibration contributions and variables that can be derived from them, such as rotation constants, electr. Accurately determine moments, excitation energies, etc. He died at the age of 66 after a serious illness in Göttingen.

Posthumous honors

The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen has been awarding Prof. Dr. Peter Botschwina Memorial Prize. This recognizes an outstanding thesis or doctorate at the interface between theory and experiment.

year Award winners
2015 Nils Bartels
2016 Svenja Janke + Matthias Heger
2017 Bastian Kruger
2018 Martin Werner
2019 Benjamin Schröder + Torben Rogge

literature

  • Jürgen Troe: Obituary for Peter Botschwina 4th May 1948 - 27th December 2014. In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. 2016, pp. 245–248

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Physical Chemistry. Volume 99, 1995, p. 9755.
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. No. 144, 2005, p. 360.
  2. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Press releases - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2015. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Public Relations: Press Releases of the University - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2016. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Public Relations: Press Releases - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2017. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Press Releases - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2018. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Press Releases - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2019. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Botschwina, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, professor of theoretical chemistry
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2014
Place of death Goettingen