Ferdi Schüth (Ferdi Schueth) is a German

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...

. He was born 8 July 1960 in Allagen/Warstein. He studied chemistry at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (, until 2023 , 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 study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...

from 1978 till 1984 and law from 1983 till 1988. After finishing his Ph.D. thesis on inorganic chemistry at the

in 1988 he did a postdoctoral studies in the

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. He did his

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in 1995 at the

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. After being professor for inorganic chemistry at the

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from 1995 till 1998 he became director at the Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung Mülheim/Ruhr. In 2003, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the

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, which is the highest honour awarded in

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research. In July 2007, he was elected vice-president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).

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Portrait at the Deutschen Forschungsgesellschaft
1960 births Living people People from Warstein 21st-century German chemists University of Münster alumni University of Minnesota alumni Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Max Planck Institute directors {{Germany-chemist-stub