Roland Mayer
Roland Otto Adolf Mayer (born January 26, 1927 in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz , † November 12, 2013 in Dresden ) was a German chemist and university professor.
Life
After brief participation in World War II and the ensuing captivity, Mayer studied chemistry from 1947 to 1951 at the University of Leipzig . He received his PhD under the direction of the natural products chemist Wilhelm Treibs in 1952 to Dr. rer. nat. and completed his habilitation in 1957 with the thesis “The preparative importance of cyclopentanone-o-carboxylic acid esters”. In 1959, Mayer was appointed as the successor to Heinrich Wienhaus as a professor with a teaching position at the Institute for Plant Chemistry and Wood Research at the TH Dresden in Tharandt and, after Friedrich Asinger's departure in 1961, he was appointed professor for organic chemistry and director of the institute of the same name at the TU Dresden. He held this position until his retirement in 1993.
After German reunification, Roland Mayer actively worked on the renewal of the scientific landscape in East Germany and in particular the Dresden area. Among other things, he was a member of evaluation commissions for non-university research of the Science Council , a member of the Saxon University Structure Commission, a founding member of the Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden and a member of the main committee and the Senate of the German Research Foundation. Roland Mayer was married to Helga Mayer until 2010 and has one son.
Scientific work
While Tharandt focused on the modeling of photosynthesis and the relationship between smell and taste and the molecular structure, Mayer's main area of work in Dresden was the development of syntheses for the production of new types of organic sulfur compounds and their characterization. His scientific life's work is documented in 480 original publications, in review articles and patents as well as in books. Numerous lectures made him known in the international professional world. He worked at the standard work Organikum .
Honors and important memberships
- Order Banner of Labor (1964)
- August Kekulé Medal of the Chemical Society of the GDR (1978)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock (1987)
- Charles University Prague Medal of Merit (1994)
- Hanus Medal of the Czech Chemical Society (2007)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997)
- Member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina Halle (since 1973)
- Corresponding member (since 1980) and full member (since 1990) of the Academy of Knowledge
literature
- Achim Mehlhorn : Roland Mayer (1927–2013) , in: Nachrichten aus der Chemie , January 2014, page 64 (obituary to Mayer).
Web links
- Literature by and about Roland Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Christel Dell, Danny Weber, Thomas Wilde: Deceased members and honorary patrons . List of members and honorary patrons who died between July 31, 2013 and June 30, 2015. In: Jörg Hacker (Ed.): German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Structure and members. German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina eV, Halle (Saale) 2015, p. 347 ( leopoldina.org [PDF; accessed September 25, 2016]).
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Roland Otto Adolf Mayer at academictree.org, accessed on January 2, 2019.
- ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, p. 294, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mayer, Roland |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Roland Otto Adolf (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz |
DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 2013 |
Place of death | Dresden |