Uwe Meierhenrich

Uwe Meier Henrich ( born October 23, 1967 in Detmold ) is a German physical chemist. He has taught since 2005 as Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry at the University of Nice Sophia -Antipolis in France.

Life

Meier Henrich comes from a family of teachers. After graduating from high school Werre Anger able Meier Henrich studied from 1988 to 1993 at the Philipps- University Marburg chemistry. He joined the University of Bremen, where he received his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1997. Meier Henrich was a post -doc at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg -Lindau and at the French synchrotron center LURE before with Scripture The Origin of Biomolecular Asymmetry habilitated in 2003 at the University of Bremen. Since 2005 he is professor at the University of Nice Sophia -Antipolis in France. In recognition of his work on the chirality he received the 2011 Horst Pracejus price of the German Chemical Society.

Work

Meier Henrich's name is associated with the detection of amino acids in space. In preparation for the Rosetta mission of the ESA, the so-called interstellar ice was simulated space conditions in the laboratory, in which 16 different amino acids have been identified. Further experiments at the French Synchrotron SOLEIL center suggested that the homochirality of proteinogenic amino acids found its origin under interstellar conditions.

Publications

• Munoz Caro, Meier Henrich et al: Amino acids from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogues, Nature 416, pp. 403-406, 2002, doi:. 10.1038/416403a.
• . Meier Henrich et al: Identification of diamino acids in the Murchison meteorite, PNAS, 101, pp. 9182-9186, 2004, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403043101.
• Meier Henrich et al.: Asymmetric vacuum UV photolysis of the amino acid leucine in the solid state, Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 44, pp. 5630-5634, 2005 doi:. 10.1002/anie.200501311
• Meier Henrich: Amino acids and the asymmetry of life, Springer- Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-76885-2.