Peter Gölitz
Peter Gölitz (* 1952 in Germerode ) is a German chemist.
Gölitz received his doctorate in chemistry with Armin de Meijere at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1978 and was a post-doctoral student at IBM in San José with Robert D. Miller and Armin de Meijere at the University of Hamburg . From 1980 he was employed by the publishing house Wiley-VCH (then Verlag Chemie). He is the Vice President and Publishing Director of Wiley-VCH.
From 1982 to 2017 he was editor-in-chief of Angewandte Chemie , which he developed into a leading international chemistry journal beyond the German-speaking world.
In his publishing house he founded several journals (Advanced Materials 1988, 1995 Chemistry- a European Journal with Jean-Marie Lehn , ChemBioChem, ChemPhysChem, ChemMedChem, ChemSusChem, ChemCatChem, Small).
In 1991 he received the literary prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and in 2000 the Gmelin-Beilstein-Gedenkmünze . He also received the President's Award from John Wiley & Sons and the Burckhardt Helferich Prize from the University of Leipzig in 2000 and the medal from the French Chemical Society in 2005. In 2007 the editorial team of Angewandte Chemie received the German Language Culture Prize, which he accepted.
He is an honorary doctor of the University of Basel (2011) and a member of the Academia Europaea (2010). In 2017 he became an honorary member of the Society of German Chemists.
Web links
- Website at the Academia Europaea
- Burckhardt Helferich Prize for Gölitz and Lehn 2008, Wiley-VCH, with photo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Title of the dissertation from 1977: Highly tensioned small ring propellans and their radical cations: for the preparative use of the trifluoromethylazo group, trifluoromethylation of alkanes
- ↑ Honorary doctorate Basel |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gölitz, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germerode |