Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Gerhard Ertl on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
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Dear Colleagues,
Our journal is pleased to publish a Special Issue in honor of Professor Gerhard Ertl for his 85th birthday. Prof. Ertl (born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his study of chemical processes on solid surfaces. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Prof. Ertl’s research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped to explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts, etc. Moreover, his research has helped to explain why the ozone layer is thinning.
In honor and recognition of Professor Gerhard Ertl’s outstanding career contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis, this Special Issue of Catalysts welcomes the submission of original research manuscripts or reviews in this area. We plan to receive submissions from now to 10 October 2021. Manuscripts will be published online on an ongoing basis after being processed.“This Special Issue is dedicated to honor Professor Gerhard Ertl for his 85th birthday, a key figure in the topic of heterogeneous catalysis.” Authors are invited to add this sentence in the acknowledgement of their contributions.
Dr. Stanisław WacławekProf. Dr. Dionysios (Dion) D. Dionysiou
Dr. Andrzej Kudelski
Guest Editors
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Selected Awards and Honors of Prof. Ertl:
- Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists (Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher) Leopoldina (since 1986), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) and the Academia Europaea;
- Corresponding member of the Brunswick Scientific Society (Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts;
- Honorary professorships at three Universities in Berlin;
- Several honorary doctorates: including from the Ruhr-University Bochum, Westphalia (1992); from the University of Münster (2000) and by the Belgian Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2003), the Swedish Chalmers University and the Danish Aarhus Universitet;
- Carl-Friedrich-Gauss Medal of Brunswick Scientific Society (1985);
- Liebig Medal of the German Chemical Society (1987);
- First Alwin Mittasch Medal (1990);
- Bunsen Medal of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (1992);
- Honorary Member of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (2006);
- Japan Prize (1992) and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1992);
- Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE; 1993);
- Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993);
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA; 2002);
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his "studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces" (October 10, 2007);
- Awarded the Otto Hahn Prize (November 27, 2007);
- The Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (April 8, 2008);
- Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg from the Prime Minister Günther Oettinger (April 26, 2008);
- Honorary membership of the DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (September 8, 2008);
- The comprehensive school Sprendlingen (district Mainz-Bingen) received the name IGS Gerhard Ertl (September 27, 2008);
- A chemistry building of the LMU Munich was named to Gerhard Ertl (December 16, 2008);
- Honorary Member of the Physical Society (October 29, 2008);
- Honorary membership at the TU Berlin (December 4, 2009);
- Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2009);
- The "Gerhard Ertl Center" was opened on the campus of TU Berlin Charlottenburg. It is the main building of the Berlin Cluster of Excellence "Unifying Concepts in Catalysis" (October 2012);
- Honorary Member of the German Physical Society (2012).
Keywords
- heterogeneous catalysis
- fuel cells
- Haber–Bosch process
- environmental catalysis
- surface chemistry
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