Heinz Georg Wagner#

Obituary, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Obituary, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

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Curriculum vitae#

Education

• 1936 - 1948 school; 1944-45 interrupted by military service
• 1948- 1953 university education in Chemistry and Physic at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt
• 1953 Diploma
• 1956 Dr.rer.nat., Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt
• 1960 Habilitation, Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen

Positions

• 1965 - 1971 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 1971 - 1997 Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen
• 1971 - 1997 Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, (Head of the Department Reaction Kinetics)
• 1976 - 2006 Secretary of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen
• 1978 - 1982 Vice President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1983 - 1989 Vice President Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Field of Scholarship:

Physical Chemistry: Kinetic of Chemical Reactions, Explosion and Combustion Processes, Vapour-Liquid Equilibria, Dynamics of Separation Processes

Honours and Awards

• Member of several Academies of Sciences in Germany and in other countries, the International Acdademy of Astronautics, Paris, the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, the Academia Eruropaea and corresponding member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Member in the Advisory Board/Council of various research organisations, among them DECHEMA, curator of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM)
• 1961-1969 NATO Advisory Group
• Several medals and honorary memberships in scientific societies, several honorary doctor degrees; many distinguished lectureships in several countries.
• 1963 Fritz Haber Preis of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
• 1972 Bernard Lewis Gold medal of the Combustion Institute
• 1982 Achema Plakette in Titan of the DECHEMA
• 1987 Numa Manson Medal
• 1987 Bundesverdienstkreuz (order of merit)
• 1991 Dionizy Smolenski Medal
• 1993 Walther-Nernst-Denkmünze of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
• 1997 DECHEMA-Medal
• 1999 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz
• 1999 Honorary member of the Bunsen-Gesellschaft