Armin Weiß

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name = Armin Weiß


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caption = Armin Weiß
birth_date = birth date and age |1927|10|5
birth_place = Stefling part of Nittenau Germany
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nationality = German
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field = inorganic chemistry
work_institution = University of Darmstadt 1961-1965
University of Munich 1965-1996
alma_mater = Technical University of Darmstadt
doctoral_advisor = Ulrich Hofmann
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prizes = Liebig Medal 1981
Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award 2007
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Armin Weiß (or Weiss for his publications) is a German inorganic chemist and former politician of the Green party.

Life

Weiß was born 5 November 1927 and raised in Stefling (near Nittenau), not far from Wackersdorf, where during the 1980s, the West German nuclear industry began building a nuclear reprocessing plant. Upset by this move, Weiss took leave from his position as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and began making public appearances in opposition to the plant. Eventually the construction of Wackersdorf was stopped. Later, as a member of the Green party of the Bavarian state government, he continued to oppose nuclear plants. In 2007, Professor Weiss received the Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award. [ [http://www.nuclear-free.com/english/weiss.htm 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award] ]

Work

The intercalation in clay minerals was major research interest during the start of his academic career. Urea is used as compound for the production of high quality china for a long time but the mechanism of action was first described by Weiß in 1961.

References

*cite web
url = http://www.uni-kiel.de/anorg/lagaly/group/klausSchiver/Weiss.pdf
title = Armin Weiss on the occasion of his 75th birthday
publisher = University of Kiel
author = Klaus Beneke, Gerhard Lagaly