Peter Gaspar

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Peter Paul Gaspar (born June 20, 1935 in Brussels - † July 27, 2019 in St. Louis ) was an American chemist and professor emeritus of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis .

Life

Gaspar moved with his family from Belgium to the United States in 1939 . He studied chemistry from 1955 to 1956 at the University of California at Los Angeles , earned a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1957 , received his master's degree from Yale University in 1958 and received his doctorate there in 1961. As a post-doctoral student he was a NATO Fellow at Heidelberg University in 1961/62 and at Caltech in 1962/63. Since 1963 Gaspar taught and researched first as an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he received a full professorship in 1973.

In 1973 he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Lisbon. From 1969 to 1990 he also conducted research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory .

The main focus of his work was on organosilicon chemistry . He dealt with reactive intermediates such as the silylenes and carbenes , with reaction mechanisms, photochemistry, gas-phase reactions of free atoms and radicals, archaeometry and organometallic main group chemistry.

In 1986 he received the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in organosilicon chemistry.

In 1965 he married Ann Carole Godwin, with whom he had a child. He was a US citizen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Paul Gaspar. chemistry educator. In: prabook.com. World Biographical Encyclopedia, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  3. ↑ a b Obituary: Peter P. Gaspar, professor emeritus of chemistry, 84th Washington University in St. Louis, August 12, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Entry in American Men and Women of Science , 2004
personal data
SURNAME Gaspar, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaspar, Peter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2019
Place of death St. Louis