Nationality German Fields inorganic chemistry | Doctoral advisor Ulrich Hofmann Name Armin Weiss | |
Born 5 November 1927
Stefling part of Nittenau Germany ( 1927-11-05 ) Died 7 December 2010(2010-12-07)
Munich Institutions University of Heidelberg 1961–1965
University of Munich 1965–1996 Alma mater University of Regensburg
University of Wurzburg
Darmstadt University of Technology | ||
Armin Weiss (or Weiß in German script) (5 November 1927 – 7 December 2010) was a German inorganic chemist and politician of the Green Party.
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Life
Weiss was born and raised in Stefling (near Nittenau), not far from Wackersdorf, where during the 1980s, the West German nuclear industry began building the nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf a nuclear reprocessing plant. Upset by this move, Weiss took leave from his position as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and began making public appearances in opposition to the plant. Eventually the construction of Wackersdorf was stopped. Later, as a member of the Bavarian state government, he continued to oppose nuclear plants. In 2007, Professor Weiss received the Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award.
Work
The intercalation in clay minerals was major research interest during the start of his academic career. Urea has been used as compound for the production of high quality china for a long time but the mechanism of action was first described by Weiss in 1961.