Chemist

A chemist (formerly Chemist ) is a scientist who deals with topics from chemistry. The job title chemist is not protected. In contrast, the academic degree of Diplom Chemist ( Dipl. -Chem. ) Protected by the state and sets a higher education successfully completed an advance diploma.

Training as a chemist in Germany

In the Federal Republic of Germany the study of chemistry is possible at about 50 universities. Diploma courses start with a four-semester foundation course, which will be completed with the non- qualifying baccalaureate exam. At the undergraduate level, the graduate joins. The following are the most oral diploma examinations and the six-to nine-month thesis. The course consists of lectures, seminars and exercises, exams and oral exams as well as regular educational events accompanying internships at the university. In the practical craft skills and the scientific, systematic work to be learned. The performance certificates ( certificates) are mainly provided through written examinations, oral examinations and attestations for passed internships. In the course of the Bologna process existing diploma courses will pass gradually into six-semester Bachelor's degree programs followed, optional viersemestrigem Master program. This process should be completed by 2018. In addition, several engineering programs have been established with a focus on chemistry.

Promotion of chemists in Germany

Usually three to five-year - - Doctor of Natural Sciences ( Dr. rer nat.. ) Or even with technical focus of the dissertation topic and a correspondingly completed university training as a doctor of engineering sciences possible After graduating from university, one is ( Dr. -Ing. ) and is currently being initiated by 87% of all certified in a graduate year in Germany chemist.

The duration depends mainly on whether the student must pursue only its promotion goals during his employment or is integrated with additional obligations such as involvement in the writing of third-party funding applications for new projects, use in teaching at the university or the handling of administrative tasks at the Department of the supervising professor. Difficult to compare the promotion period is also characterized in that a portion of the doctoral processed the successful tasks from previous graduate students after their graduation, and continue to use the design and construction of their predecessors, while another part of the doctoral tries to establish absolutely new topics first time. Payment of the PhD is usually after TVöD when not fully weekly working time ( usually 50 % or 2 /3) or through a scholarship.

Objectives of promotion and subsequent employment of chemists in Germany

The doctoral degree is to provide evidence for independent research, ie the scientific development and work on a topic. This includes a largely individual experiments, the experimental setup and the experimental procedure including analysis of results to the results for publication ( dissertation ) enlisted in the scientific context.

The promotion is necessary because the classical field of work of the graduate chemist research at universities, in industry or in research institutes such as the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the Max Planck Society, the Fraunhofer Society or the Leibniz Association. The payment will be there in or with reference to the Public Service after TVöD.

Building on the promotion qualifications

Postdoctoral Chemist with the career goal of the university teacher usually include up to six years on a continuing junior professorship or a habilitation at the promotion. Another way to gaining additional experience and to expand the list of publications offer post- doctoral positions at home and abroad. They are mainly collecting the desired adjustment ends of the industry, " International Experience " and the " knowledge of language " and " flexibility proof " or simply to bridge the unemployment after graduation in bad places location.

Situation in Germany

The term chemist is not a protected term in Germany. The academic degree Diplom Chemist is as professional title, however, a protected term. With the abolition of diploma courses as part of the Bologna process, Bachelor's or Master's degree will replace the graduate degrees in newly acquired qualifications as job title.

Others

The German Chemical Society ( German Chemical Society ), the professional organization of chemists in Germany, has about 27,000 members. The Austrian Chemical Society ( GÖCH ) has nearly 2,000 members. The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS ) in 2008 had 2377 members a year.

Significant chemists from around the world

Chemistry is one of the five disciplines where since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded, see List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry.

Ordered lists of important chemists

• Significant chemist sorted chronologically by date of birth
• Important Chemists in alphabetical order
• Significant chemists divided by subject and alphabetically sorted
• Historical classification in the book: Biographic- litterarisches Handbook of scientifically significant chemist / ed. Carl Schaedler. - Berlin:. Friedlander, 1891 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• List of chemists