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INTEREST IN HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS Parallel to those fundamental experiments on model substrates Gerhard Ertl always kept an interest in real catalysis. In his department a group performed groundbreaking mechanistically oriented experiments on real powder catalysts. Ammonia synthesis had in addition to other reactions, always been one of Gerhard’s key interests, and it was reinforced when it became obvious that in addition to the classic iron based catalyst, also ruthenium based catalysts could be technically beneficial. Work in this and other directions has resulted in a variety of important contributions to the science of catalysis. He has edited together with Helmut Kno¨zinger and Jens Weitkamp the Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis, a five-volume encyclopedia on heterogeneous catalysis, which has set the standard in the field. 10/29/2007 NCCR 34
Academic Responsibilities It is only natural that the advice and leadership of a scientist of Gerhard Ertl’s caliber has been sought nationally and internationally. In Hannover and in Munich he has been dean of the faculty, in Munich he was spokesperson of the center of excellence, financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG). He has served the scientific community and its societies via memberships of numerous committees. In the beginning of the 1990s, he was very active in evaluating science in the former GDR, and was “Kommissarischer Direktor” of the Max-Planck- Institute in Halle until the new directors were installed. In Germany he advised the German Science Foundation in various committees as one of its elected referees (1988-1995), at last as one of its vice presidents (1995-2001), as well as the ministry for science and technology (BMFT) from 1981 to 1988 as a member in the committee responsible for synchrotron radiation research. He has been on the advisory editorial board of many journals and he was the chairman of the 8th International Congress on Catalysis held in Berlin in 1984. He is an ordinary or foreign member of ten academies including the National Academy of Science of the United States (since 2001). 10/29/2007 NCCR 35
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