Dieter Fenske (born 29. September 1942) is a German
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 ...
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Life
Fenske studied
chemistry at the
University of Münster
The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...
, received his PhD in 1973 and his
Habilitation in 1978.
He is Professor for
Inorganic chemistry at the
University of Karlsruhe
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association.
KIT was created in 2009 w ...
and Director at th
Institute for Nanotechnology (INT)o
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Awards
In 1991, he received the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...
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In 1993, he was awarded the Wilhelm-Klemm Award of the
Society of German Chemists. Since 1999, he is a full 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 ...
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In 2005, he received a Doctor honoris causa title from 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 ...
in Novosibirsk.
Since 2007, he is a 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 ...
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References
External links
HomepageResearch summary
Living people
20th-century German chemists
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology faculty
21st-century German chemists
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