Helmut Schwarz

Helmut Schwarz ( born August 6, 1943 in Nickenich ) is a German chemist and since January 2008 President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Life

Black initially trained as a chemical laboratory assistant, acquired in the second-chance education for university and then studied chemistry in Berlin. In 1971 he obtained his diploma, he received his doctorate in 1972, 1974, he holds a PhD degree, with Ferdinand Bohlmann was his mentor. After research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in the UK, he is since 1978 professor at the Technical University of Berlin, 1983, he was appointed there on a C4 professorship.

Black is concerned with the process of chemical processes at the molecular level, in particular the reactions of ionic and radical organic species in the gas phase. His research contributed greatly to the understanding of catalytic processes, as well as his studies of fullerenes in the art have often been observed.

In addition, Black was instrumental in the development of mass spectrometry, which is commonly used in chemistry and forensics analysis method.

Since 2010 he is a member of the Presidium of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. In July 2012, he was elected for a further term of office as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (to end 2017).

Activities as editor and member of editorial boards

Black was 1983-2010 Editor of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and between 1990 and 1994 Editor of the Chemical reports. He was also a member of the editorial boards of "Mass Spectrometry Reviews" between 1990 and 2003, the Helvetica Chimica Acta between 1990 and 2002. There (as of mid 2013) he is a member of the editorial boards of "Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry" (since 2002) and the Journal of the American Chemical Society ( since 2007).

Memberships

  • Academy of Sciences in Erfurt profit (since 1991)
  • German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences (since 1992)
  • Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (since 1992)
  • Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1997)
  • Academia Europaea (since 1997)
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2012)

Awards

  • Otto Klung Weberbank Award (1980 )
  • Otto Bayer Award (1989 )
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1990 )
  • Max Planck Research Award (1991, together with Chava Lifshitz )
  • Liebig Medal (1998)
  • Prelog Medal and Lecture (2000)
  • Otto Hahn Prize (2003)
  • Erwin Schrödinger Medal ( 2008)
  • Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry ( 2011)
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st class (2012 )
  • Lichtenberg Medal ( 2012)

Honorary doctorates:

  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( 1992)
  • Technion Haifa ( 2000)
  • Leopold -Franzens- University of Innsbruck (2006)
  • Weizmann Institute of Science (2008)
  • ETH Zurich (2010)
  • Hanyang University HYU, Seoul (2013 )
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