Hans Bock (5 October 1928 – 21 January 2008) was a German chemist born in

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and died in

Königstein im Taunus Königstein im Taunus () is a health spa and lies on the thickly wooded slopes of the Taunus in Hesse, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Owing to its advantageous location for both scenery and transport on the ed ...

Career

Hans Bock studied chemistry at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, where he received his PhD in 1958 for his work on water-free hydrazine in the group of Egon Wiberg.Obituary (in German language) by H.Nöthbr>
/ref> In 1964 he received his post doctoral lecture qualification after work on

phosphorus Phosphorus is a chemical element with the symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Ear ...

containing diacenes in the same research group. Subsequently, he had a three-year visit in the group of

Edgar Heilbronner Edgar Heilbronner (13 May 1921 – 28 August 2006) was a Swiss German chemist. In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius cyclic annulenes, but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003.On Molecular Orbital Correlation Di ...

at ETH Zurich/Switzerland, where he worked on applications of the HMO-model, leading to the textbook: ''The HMO model and its application''. In 1968 he was announced full professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.Obituary (in German language) by W.Kaim

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Research

Bock is the author and co-author of more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His research focused on preparation of element-organic compounds and their characterisation by appropriate physical measurement methods. Main focus was set on development and application of

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a surface-sensitive quantitative spectroscopic technique based on the photoelectric effect that can identify the elements that exist within a material (elemental composition) or are covering its surface, ...

(XPS) for detection and characterisation of transient molecules.Obituary (in German language) by W.A.Herrmannbr>
/ref> He proposed the use of the super silyl group in 1993.

Literature

* ''The HMO model and its application'' by Edgar Heilbronner and Hans Bock, translated by W.Martin and A.J.Rackstraw

Recognition

He was external member of

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes ...

and became adjunct professor at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(Ann Arbor) and TU München. He received two honorary doctorates by universities of

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and Montpellier/France. In 1987 he received the Wilhelm-Klemm-AwardWilhelm-Klemm-Award (in German language)
by the

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 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 ...

(GDCh).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bock, Hans 1928 births 2008 deaths Scientists from Hamburg 20th-century German chemists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt University of Michigan faculty Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities