Wolfgang Sundermeyer

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Wolfgang Sundermeyer (born October 4, 1928 in Aachen ) is a German emeritus for inorganic chemistry.

Life

Sundermeyer's parents were the ministerial official Walther Sundermeyer and his wife Gertrud. The professional transfers of his father let him spend further formative years in Schleswig (1934-1939) and Marienbad (1939-1945). After a brief deployment in the war (November 1944 to May 1945) he came to Hannoversch Münden when the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia . 1945-1947 he made an agricultural apprenticeship in Obernjesa . In 1949 he graduated from high school in Hann. Münden. From 1950 he studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, first agricultural chemistry, then chemistry. In 1950 he became active in the Corps Teutonia-Hercynia. He excelled on several batches (x, xx, xxx, FM, FM). With a diploma thesis with Oskar Glemser , he became a qualified chemist in 1956. At Glemser, he also wrote the doctoral thesis , with which he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. In the same year he married the physiotherapist Heidi Sundermeyer geb. Verbeek. From 1958 to 1962 he worked in Leverkusen at Bayer AG as head of a group for silicone research. In 1963 he returned to the University of Göttingen as a senior assistant, meanwhile with four children. In 1966 he completed his habilitation in the field of reactions in molten salts. In the following year he followed the call of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to its chair for inorganic chemistry . He conducted research in the fields of fluorine chemistry and organometallic chemistry, especially the hydrides, alkyls and pseudohalides of the elements of the main groups, in particular boron, silicon, germanium and tin. In addition to basic research, he was always interested in application aspects in connection with molten salts as reaction media and catalysts, in electrochemistry or in the chemical basis of the manufacture of solar cells. In 1994 he retired . He wrote 110 publications and holds 23 patents . His scientific work was honored with the award of the Friedrich Wöhler Prize from the University of Göttingen (1957) and the Alcoa Foundation Award in Pittsburgh (1982). He was visiting professor at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (1983), the University of Pretoria (1987) and the University of Stellenbosch (1987).

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 172/259.
  2. ↑ Diploma thesis: About the representation of the monosilane .
  3. ↑ Dissertation: New method for the preparation of silicon and boron hydrogen .
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Salt melts and their use as reaction media in preparative chemistry .
  5. ↑ Working group of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sundermeyer (RKU)
personal data
SURNAME Sundermeyer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German emeritus for inorganic chemistry in Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen