Ferdi Schüth (Ferdi Schueth) is a German

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...

. He was born 8 July 1960 in Allagen/Warstein. He 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 ...

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

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

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. He did his habilitation in 1995 at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...

. After being professor for inorganic chemistry at the

University of Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

from 1995 till 1998 he became director at the

Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung) is an institute located in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany specializing in chemical research on catalysis. It is one of the 86 institutes in the Max Pl ...

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