Peter Paetzold

Peter Paetzold (16 March 1935 in Plau, Mecklenburg) is a German chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.[1]

Life

He studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1] In 1961, he received his doctorate in the working group of Egon Wiberg; in his dissertation he dealt with the thermal decomposition of borazides.[1] After his habilitation (1966), he taught for two more years at the LMU.[1] He then moved to a chair of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.[1] In his research, he mainly dealt with the molecular chemistry of the element boron, especially with iminoboranes and cluster compounds.[1][2] His list of publications includes about 180 papers. Paetzold retired in 2000.[1] After various books and textbooks on chemistry, he published a textbook on general chemistry in autumn 2009.[3] In 2015, a scientific colloquium in his honor took place.[4] He is married and has 4 children.[1]

Awards

1998 Alfred Stock Memorial Prize

Selected publications

Paetzold, P.: Chemie – Eine Einführung, Walter de Gruyter Berlin und New York, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020268-7

References
  1. "Peter Paetzold CV". www.ac.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. "Paetzold Research". www.ac.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  3. Paetzold, P.: Chemie - Eine Einführung -, Walter de Gruyter Berlin und New York, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020268-7
  4. "Das Jubiläum "100pro RWTH!" | fördern | Förderprojekte | Beitrag". www.prorwth.de. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
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