- Gerd Wedler
Gerd Wedler (*
19 August 1929 inBraunschweig ,Germany ; †13 September 2008 inErlangen ,Germany ) was a Germanchemist .Live
After graduating from high school, which Gerd Wedler 1949 in his native city of Brunswick test, he began his studies in chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Already with his thesis "On the mechanism of decay Formic acid on nickel contact", he laid the foundations for the exploration of the primary steps of the heterogeneous
catalysis . 1966, he took a chair at theUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg and became a full professor at the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry appointed.Effect
Gerd Wedler was co-founder of a group of researchers and a special research department of the German Research Foundation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences II His work area included the investigation of the
adsorption and Response behavior of smallMolecule on model catalysts.For his work in this area he was in 1996 Bunsen Denkmünze the Germans
Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry awarded. Its scientific findings are available in more than 200 publications resigned. His "Textbook of Physical Chemistry" appears now in its fifth edition in Germany and is a standard work of the Physical Chemistry. Even in retirement, he devoted part of his leisure time to update this standard premises.Weblinks
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*Informationsdienst Wissenschaft : [http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news13259 „Prof. Dr. Gerd Wedler zum 70.]Persondata
NAME=Wedler, Gerd
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH=19 August 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH=Brunswick ,Germany
DATE OF DEATH=13 September 2008
PLACE OF DEATH=Erlangen ,Germany Category:Chemistry, Biographie
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