Nationality German Fields Chemist Role Chemist | Name Hanns-Peter Boehm Doctoral advisor Ulrich Hofmann | |
Born 9 January 1928 (age 96)
Paris, France ( 1928-01-09 ) Alma mater Darmstadt University of Technology Education Technische Universitat Darmstadt | ||
Institutions University of Munich | ||
Hanns-Peter Boehm (Born 9 January 1928 in Paris) is a German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene research.
Biography
Hanns-Peter Boehm studied chemistry in Regensburg 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 1961, Boehm, together with Ralph Setton and Eberhard Stumpp, isolated and identified single graphene sheets by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction. In 1986 they authored the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) report formally defining the term graphene. In 1970 Boehm became professor and director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; in 1994 he retired to the status of professor emeritus.