Arndt Simon (born 14 January 1940) is a

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inorganic chemist Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two disci ...

. He was a director at the

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung'') was founded in 1969 and is one of the 82 Max Planck Institutes of the Max Planck Society. It is located on a campus in Stuttgart, togeth ...

in Stuttgart.

Life

Simon studied Chemistry at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

from 1960-1964. He worked on his doctoral thesis in the group of

Harald Schäfer Harald Schäfer (10 February 1913, Jena – 21 December 1992, Münster) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Münster in Germany. He is recognized for popularizing the use of chemical vapor transport and the discovery of man ...

from 1964-1966 and finished his habilitation in 1971. In 1972, he was appointed as an associate professor at the

. Starting in 1974, he was a member of the Max-Planck Society and one of the directors at the

in Stuttgart. Since 1975, he was a honorary professor at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

. Since 2010, he has been an emeritus.

Research

Simon worked on a wide range of topics in inorganic chemistry: * Alkali Metal Suboxides * Subnitrides of Alkaline Earth Metals * Metal-rich Halides and Oxides of Heavy d-Metals * Condensed Clusters * Interstitial Atoms in Metal Clusters * Metalrich Binary and Ternary Halides of Lanthanides * Thorium Cluster Compounds * Intermetallic Compounds (Pauling-Simon Rule) * Structures and Phase Transitions in Molecular Crystals * Structure Property Relations (Photo Cathodes, Amorphous Metals, Magnetic Order and Frustration, Spin Crossover, Spin Glasses) * Superconductivity * Apparatus Development (Guinier-Simon Camera, Area Detector Diffractometer)

Awards

Simon was awarded a number of awards and honorary doctorates: * 1972 Chemistry Award of the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the second oldest of the se ...

* 1985 Wilhelm Klemm Award of the

Society of German Chemists The German Chemical Society (German: ', GDCh) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in che ...

* 1987

Otto Bayer Award Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded ...

* 1990

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

* 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of Technical University Dresden * 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of University (TH) Karlsruhe * 1998

Centenary Prize The Centenary Prize is an award granted annually by the United Kingdom-based Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to up to three "outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas". The prize, established in 1947, and fir ...

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

* 2001 Dr. phil. h.c. of Stockholm University * 2002 Dr. h.c. of Université de Rennes I * 2004 Sir Nevill Mott Lecture,

University of Loughborough Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

* 2004 Liebig-Denkmünze of the

* 2011 Terrae Rarae Award He is also a member of several academies of sciences: * 1989 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Corresponding Member since 1994) * 1990 Member of the

Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German: ''Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften''), established in 1909 in Heidelberg, Germany, is an assembly of scholars and scientists in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Academ ...

* 1990 Member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

* 1992 Member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

* 1998 Member of the

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

* 1998 Foreign Member of the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

* 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India

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