80th Birthday: Klaus Unger

80th Birthday: Klaus Unger

Author: ChemViews

Klaus Unger, formerly University of Mainz, Germany, a distinguished researcher in the field of porous materials and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), celebrates his 80th birthday on June 16, 2016.

Professor Unger’s research interests are the design and synthesis of porous materials as adsorbents and catalysts, their surface functionalization and characterization, and their use in liquid chromatography.

Klaus Unger studied chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, where he also received his Ph.D. in 1965. He remained in Darmstadt, finished his habilitation there in 1969, and was appointed as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. From 1976 to 2001, he was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany. From 2001 to 2009, he worked at the Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, as Senior Researcher in the field of bioseparation.

Among many other honors, Professor Unger has received the Pregl Medal by the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry in 1991, the A. J. P. Martin medal by the Royal Chromatography Society, London, in 1993, the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award for Chromatography in 1995, and the CASSS (California Separation Science Society) Annual Scientific Achievement Award in 2010.


Selected Publications by Klaus Unger

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