Siegfried Nowak

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Siegfried Nowak (born April 17, 1930 in Wählitz ; † September 7, 2013 ) was a German chemist . From 1974 to 1987 he was director of the Central Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1987 to 1990 he headed the chemistry research department of the academy, of which he was vice-president from 1990 to 1992.

Life

Siegfried Nowak was born in Wählitz / Hohenmölsen in 1930 and , after studying chemistry at Lomonossow University in Moscow, received his doctorate in 1959 from Leipzig University . From 1967 he was division manager and from 1970 division director at the Leipzig Institute for Process Engineering of Organic Chemistry of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW). In 1971 he was appointed professor by the academy and also completed his habilitation at the academy a year later . From 1972 to 1974 he worked as deputy director and then until 1987 as director of the Central Institute for Organic Chemistry of the AdW in Berlin-Adlershof .

From 1987 he headed the chemistry research area within the academy, and from 1990 until the academy was closed he was its vice-president and chairman of the AdW research association. In July 1990 he became director of the AdW Institute for Chemical Technology, also located in Adlershof . After this institute was closed, he founded the private research institute for technical chemistry and environmental protection in Berlin , which he headed until he reached retirement age in 1995.

Siegfried Nowak was from 1973 a corresponding and from 1978 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In addition, he has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1988 . In 1986 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology. The focus of his research activities was on petrochemistry , especially the pyrolysis of hydrocarbons , and heterogeneous catalysis .

Siegfried Nowak died in 2013 after a long illness.

Works (selection)

  • For the splitting dehydrogenation of Fischer-Tropsch products in a small-scale moving bed splitting plant. Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960
  • Pyrolysis of hydrocarbons. Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980
  • Development tendencies and problems of carbochemistry in the GDR. Urania, Berlin 1985

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Öhlmann: Obituary for our member Siegfried Nowak Published by the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin on September 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Nowak, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wählitz
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2013