Lieselotte Feikes (1923 in

Viersen Viersen (; li, Veeëse) is the capital of the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Viersen is situated approximately 8 km north-west of Mönchengladbach, 15 km south-west of Krefeld and 20 km east o ...

- 29 January 2008) was a German chemist. She is known for her work in the leather chemistry and the development of wastewater treatment processes.

Life

Starting in 1943, Feikes studied chemistry at the

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at the Institute of

Karl Ziegler Karl Waldemar Ziegler (26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds ...

and at the

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. She earned her doctorate with

Margot Becke-Goehring Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 in Heidelberg) was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and she was the first female rector of a university in West Germany - the Heidelber ...

at the

. In 1953, she joined the Carl Freudenberg Werke in Weinheim. She headed the leather laboratory for 20 years and developed wastewater treatment processes for wastewater treatment plants. Since the beginning of the 1970s, she was responsible for environmental protection in the company. In 1983, she wrote the book "Ökologische Probleme der Lederindustrie". She was awarded the

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

for her services to environmental protection. Feikes died on 29 January 2008 in

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, Germany.

Selected publications

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Awards

She received the following awards: * 1979 Yearly prize of the Verein für Gerberei-Chemie * 1984 Honorary member of the Verein Österreichischer Ledertechniker * 1986

* 1986 Arthur Wilson Memorial Lecture

References

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