Hanns-Peter Boehm
Encyclopedia
Hanns-Peter Boehm is a German
chemist
and professor emeritus
at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene
research.
from 1947 to 1951. He received his doctorate in 1953 at Darmstadt University of Technology, where he also received his habilitation
in 1959 with the treatise Oberflächenchemie und Adsorption an Kohlenstoff und SiO2. In 1970 Boehm became professor and director of the Institute for Anorganic Chemistry of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; in 1994 he retired to the status of a professor emeritus.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
and professor emeritus
Emeritus
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at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. The term graphene was coined as a combination of graphite and the suffix -ene by Hanns-Peter Boehm, who described single-layer...
research.
Biography
Hanns-Peter Boehm studied chemistry in RegensburgRegensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
from 1947 to 1951. He received his doctorate in 1953 at Darmstadt University of Technology, where he also received his habilitation
Habilitation
Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...
in 1959 with the treatise Oberflächenchemie und Adsorption an Kohlenstoff und SiO2. In 1970 Boehm became professor and director of the Institute for Anorganic Chemistry of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; in 1994 he retired to the status of a professor emeritus.