Herbert W. Roesky

Herbert Walter Roesky ( born November 6, 1935 in Laukischken ( East Prussia ) ) is a German chemist.

Life

Herbert Walter Roesky received his doctorate in 1963 in Göttingen. After postdoctoral research at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, he completed his habilitation in 1967. Roesky was 1971-1980 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 1973-1976 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. In 1980 he was appointed as a full professor and director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. From 1985 to 1987 he was Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry. In 2004 he became Professor Emeritus. Herbert Roeskys son Peter Roesky (* 1967) is also a professor of chemistry and now at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology operates.

Work

Roesky was primarily known for his work in the field of fluorine compounds, the sulfur-nitrogen heterocycles as well as work on the transition area between classical inorganic coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry. Pioneering work he did on the field of Metallophosphazene.

He has published numerous publications, including more than 700 publications in internationally renowned journals.

Roesky was in demand internationally as a scientist. He was a visiting professor at Auburn University (1984 ), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1987 ), at the University of Kyoto (1992) and at the University of Iowa ( 1995) holds. He taught as a visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin ( George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer 1995) and at Texas A & M University ( Frontier Lecturer 1995). In 2004 he was an adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University and Honorary Professor at Central South University in Changsha, China. Followed in 2005 by an honorary professor at Peking University and in 2006 an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay IIT. From 2002 to April 2008 was Roesky president of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

Honors and Memberships

Science Awards

  • Alexander von Humboldt Award (1986 )
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1988 )
  • Alfred Stock Memorial Prize (1990 )
  • Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award ( 1994)
  • Literature Prize of the Fund of the Chemical Industry (1995 )
  • Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie (1998)
  • Wilkinson Prize (1998)

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate from the Nankai University in Tianjin, China ( 1990)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Bielefeld (1992 )
  • Honorary doctorate from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic ( 1994)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, Romania ( 1995)
  • Honorary Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences ( 1996)
  • Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India ( 1997)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France ( 2000)
  • Honorary member of the Chemical Research Society of India (2001)
  • Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences (2002)
  • Member of the Leibniz law firm, Berlin ( 2003)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Missouri- Columbia, Missouri, USA (2005 )
  • Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC ) in London (2006)
  • Honorary member of the Romanian Academy (2006)

Memberships

  • Full Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1983 )
  • Member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1986 )
  • Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( 1987)
  • Member of the Senate of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1991 )
  • Full member of the Academia Europaea (1997)
  • Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1997)
  • Corresponding Member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ( 1999)
  • Full member of the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels ( 2002)
  • Full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg (2004)
  • Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, físicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004)

Writings

  • Dry cabinet pieces. Spectacular experiments and witty quotes from Herbert W. Roesky and Klaus Moeckel, 331 pages, Wiley- VCH; Edition: 2, corr. Nachdr (November 2000), ISBN 3-527-29426-0
  • Highlights Chemical Experiment Art of Herbert W. Roesky, 236 pages, Wiley- VCH; 1 edition (January 2006), ISBN 3- 527-31511 -X
  • Chemistry en miniature by Herbert W. Roesky, 248 pages, Wiley- VCH (November 2001), ISBN 3- 527-29564 -X
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