Rolf Huisgen

Rolf Huisgen ( born June 13, 1920 in Gerolstein, Eifel ) is a German chemist.

Life and work

After leaving school at the State Reginoschule Prüm Huisgen began with the study of chemistry at the University of Bonn and then switched to Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich. As a student of Nobel laureate Heinrich Otto Wieland in 1943 he received his PhD at the University of Munich. In 1947 he qualified as a professor and became private. In 1949 he was appointed as associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Tübingen. In 1952, he received a call back to LMU as a full professor and head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry. Since 1988 he is Professor Emeritus. Rolf Huisgen is the author of about 590 scientific publications in international journals. Main area of his research was and is the Physical Organic Chemistry. In the center of his interest in particular is the reaction of the class [3 2 ] cycloaddition or 1,3- dipolar cycloaddition reactions, which are often named after him ( " click chemistry ").

Awards

1959 Huisgen became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1961 he was awarded the Liebig Medal of the German Chemical Society ( German Chemical Society ). In 1964 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1965 he received the Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France, 1975, the Roger Adams Award from the American Chemical Society. In 1979 he was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize of the German Chemical Society and the Achema badge. In 1990 he was socio straniero the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. In 1991 the German Chemical Society awarded him honorary membership, 2006, the Chemical Society of Japan. Rolf Huisgen was with honorary doctorates from the University Complutense of Madrid (1975 ), the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg (1977 ), the Friedrich -Alexander- University Erlangen- Nuremberg ( 1980), Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg (1984 ), the University Regensburg ( 1985), the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg (1993) and the Free University of Berlin ( 2010) excellent. Rolf Huisgen was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit (1982 ) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1984). From the State University of St. Petersburg in 2002, he was honored with an honorary professorship.

Huisgen was married and is the father of two daughters.