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Biography Heinz Gerischer, born on March 31, 1919, in Wittenberg, Germany, studied Chemistry at the University of Leipzig from 1937 to 1946 (with some interruptions by the war) and received the Dr. rer. nat. degree of this university in 1946; his supervisor was Professor Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer. From 1946 to 1949 he was Assistant Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Go¨ttingen as a Research Associate. He became a Senior Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart in 1954 and a Scientific Member of this institute in 1960. In 1956, he was appointed a Lecturer at the Technical University of Stuttgart. In 1962, he accepted an offer of the Technical University of Munich to become Associate Professor of Electrochemistry. In 1964, he was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the same university. In 1970, Professor Gerischer was appointed to be Director of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin (the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry), and he held the Director’s position until his retirement in 1987. In 1970, he was also appointed Honorary Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin. After his retirement from the Fritz Haber Institute in 1987, he was appointed Scientific Member Emeritus. Professor Gerischer has published more than 300 papers in the areas of electrochemical kinetics, fast reactions in solution and at electrodes, electrocatalysis, metal deposition and corrosion, semiconductor electrochemistry, and photoelectrochemistry. He also served as Editor of AdVances in Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering (Wiley-Interscience, New York) (with C. W. Tobias) 1977-1984, Editor of AdVances in Electrochemical Science and Engineering (VCH, Weinheim) (with C. W. Tobias) 1990-1994, Associate Editor of Electrochimica Acta, and Editor of Light-Induced Charge Separation in Biology and Chemistry, Dahlem Workshop Reports (Verlag Chemie, Weinheim) 1979. Professor Gerischer spent several periods at universities in the United States as a visiting professor or research fellow: 1967-68 and 1987-88 at the University of California, Berkeley; 1973 at the University of Gainesville, Florida; 1977-78 at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; 1990-91 at the University of Texas, Austin. Professor Heinz Gerischer received many honors and awards. These include: Bodenstein Award of the “Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft fu¨r Physikalische Chemie” (1953); President of the International Society of Electrochemistry (1971-72); President of the “Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft fu¨r Physikalische Chemie” (1971-72); Doctor of Sciences h.c. of the University of Southampton (1973); Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1973); member of the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA, Halle (1973); Bunsen-Denkmu¨nze of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft fu¨r Physikalische Chemie (1976); Palladium Medal of The Electrochemical Society (1977); Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1978); Centenary Lectureship of The Chemical Society, London, (1979); Doctor rer. nat. h.c. of the University of Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg (1979); DECHEMA Medal, Frankfurt (Main) (1982); Dr. rer. nat. h.c. of the Free University, Berlin (1986); Electrochemistry Group Medal of The Royal Society of Chemistry, London (1987); Galvani Medal of the Division of Electrochemistry of The Italian Chemical Society (1988); honorary member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (1991); Bruno Breyer Medal of The Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (1992); honorary member of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft fu¨r Physikalische Chemie (1994). Nathan S. Lewis Helmut Tributsch Arthur J. Nozik S1089-5647(97)00544-0 CCC: $14.00
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