Wolfgang Jeitschko

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Wolfgang Jeitschko (born May 27, 1936 in Prague ; † August 5, 2020 in Münster ) was a German chemist who dealt with solid-state chemistry. He was a full professor for inorganic chemistry at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Jeitschko studied chemistry in Vienna (technical college and university) from 1956 and received his doctorate in 1964 under Hans Nowotny at the University of Vienna . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania until 1966 , then a year at the University of Vienna and then went back to the USA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 1969 to 1975 he worked in DuPont's research division in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Giessen , 1979 at the University of Dortmund and 1982 in Münster at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry. In 2001 he retired. Visiting professorships took him to Geneva, Liège, Rennes, New York and Madras.

He dealt with structure elucidation and synthesis of new solid-state compounds, especially at the boundary between metal and semiconductors, for example carbides and phosphides of transition metals and intermetallic compounds. He investigated their structure and electrical and magnetic properties (including oxypnictides, which were researched as candidates for iron-based high-temperature superconductors from 2006).

In 2010 he received the Carl Hermann Medal , the highest award from the German Society for Crystallography, for his life's work. In 1991 he received the Kurnakov Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Jeitschko had been married to the journalist Marieluise Fichtner since 1964 and had three sons.

Fonts

  • with R. Pöttgen, R.-D. Hoffmann: Structural Chemistry of Hard Materials. In: R. Riedel (Ed.), Handbook of Ceramic Hard Materials, Wiley-VCH, 2000, pp. 3-40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of | www.trauer.ms. Retrieved on August 9, 2020 (German).
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  3. ↑ Barbara I. Zimmer, Wolfgang Jeitschko, Jörg H. Albering, Robert Glaum, Manfred Reehuis The rate earth transition metal phosphide oxides LnFePO, LnRuPO and LnCoPO with ZrCuSiAs type structure , Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 229, 1995, p. 238 -242
  4. ↑ Münsteraner Bote, October 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Jeitschko, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2020
Place of death Muenster