Wolfgang Schnick

Wolfgang Schnick (October 2012)

Wolfgang Schnick (born November 23, 1957 in Hanover ) is a German chemist .

Life

Wolfgang Schnick passed his Abitur at the Schillerschule grammar school in Hanover in 1976 and began studying chemistry at the University of Hanover in the same year . It was in 1986 with a dissertation on Alkaliozonide to Dr. rer. nat. doctorate , which he completed in Martin Jansen's working group . Schnick then did research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Albrecht Rabenau's group . The habilitation in inorganic chemistry took place in 1992 at the University of Bonn with a thesis on phosphorus (V) nitrides.

Schnick went to Bayreuth University as a full professor for inorganic chemistry in 1993 . Since 1998 he has been researching and teaching as full professor for inorganic solid-state chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2005 he declined an appointment as a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in personal union as a professor at the University of Stuttgart . Schnick was the first director of the Chemistry Department at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which was founded in 2000, and was a member of the executive management there from 2007 to 2016.

research

Schnick and his group work in the field of solid-state chemistry and materials research in the field of basic research . New synthetic routes are being developed that lead to complex nitrides of the main group elements of the 3rd to 5th main group in combination with alkali and alkaline earth metals , rare earth metals and / or hydrogen . The materials obtained in this way are examined with regard to their crystal structure , material properties and possible applications. A broad synthetic access to the substance classes of nitridosilicates , nitridophosphates and carbon nitrides was opened up and the crystal structures of phosphorus (V) nitrides were clarified. In addition, the first nitridic zeolites and clathrates (e.g. zeolites NPO and NPT) were synthesized and structurally elucidated. With melam, melem and melon and Polyheptazinimid (PHI) were basic precursors of carbon (IV) nitride characterized in detail.

The luminescent materials developed by Schnick based on europium -doped nitridosilicates and oxonitridosilicates, which are used as efficient phosphors in phosphor-converted (pc) light-emitting diodes, are used in industry. In this context, Schnick and Peter J. Schmidt ( Philips Technologie GmbH, Lumileds Development Center Aachen ) were nominated for the 2013 German Future Prize for the project "Energy-saving solid-state chemistry - new materials illuminate the world" .

Many of Schnick's former students became professors at other universities.

Awards

• Bennigsen Foerder Prize, North Rhine-Westphalia, 1989
• Heisenberg grant , German Research Foundation , 1992
• Lecturer grant, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), Verband der Chemischen Industrie (VCI), 1992
• Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities , 1992
• Otto Klung Prize , Free University of Berlin , 1994
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , German Research Foundation , 1996
• Steinhofer Prize, University of Freiburg , 1999
• Full member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , since 2002
• Horst Dietrich Hardt Prize, Saarland University , 2006
• Corresponding member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences , since 2006
• Wilhelm-Klemm-Prize , Society of German Chemists , 2007
• Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , since 2009
• Liebig Memorial Coin , Society of German Chemists , 2018

Web links

• Homepage at the Department of Chemistry at LMU Munich
• Film report by LMU Munich (ScienceCast, 2014) about Schnick's research
• Report on LED research by Schnick in the magazine Insights No. 2/2014 of the LMU Munich (PDF; 16.4 MB)
• Nomination by Wolfgang Schnick for the German Future Prize 2013 with the project "Energy-saving solid-state chemistry - new materials illuminate the world"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alumni , website of the Chair of Inorganic Solid State Chemistry at the University of Munich, accessed on March 18, 2013.
2. ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Schnick (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.