Dieter Fenske

Dieter Fenske (born 29. September 1942) is a German inorganic chemist.[1][2]

Life

Fenske studied chemistry at the University of Münster, received his PhD in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978.[1] He is Professor for Inorganic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe and Director at the Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.[1]

Nanoscale Phosphine-stabilized Ag-S cluster prepared by Fenske et al. Color code: gray = Ag, violet = P, orange = S.[3]

Awards

In 1991, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.[1] In 1993, he was awarded the Wilhelm-Klemm Award of the Society of German Chemists.[4] Since 1999, he is a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[2] In 2005, he received a Doctor honoris causa title from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk.[1] Since 2007, he is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[5]

References
  1. Adams, Richard D.; Müller, Achim; Schmid, Günter (2007-09-01). "Foreword: A Special Issue to Dieter Fenske". Journal of Cluster Science. 18 (3): 473–475. doi:10.1007/s10876-007-0107-z. ISSN 1572-8862. S2CID 97409159.
  2. "HAdW Mitglied". www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  3. Fenske, D.; Persau, C.; Dehnen, S.; Anson, C. E. (2004). "Syntheses and Crystal Structures of the Ag-S Cluster Compounds [Ag70S20(SPh)28(dppm)10] (CF3CO2)2 and [Ag262S100(St-Bu)62(dppb)6]". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43 (3): 305–309. doi:10.1002/anie.200352351. PMID 14705083.
  4. "GDCh-Preise | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V." www.gdch.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  5. "Mitgliederverzeichnis". www.leopoldina.org (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-21.


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