Arndt Simon
Arndt Simon is a German inorganic chemist. He was a director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Life
Simon studied Chemistry at the University of Münster from 1960-1964. He worked on his doctoral thesis in the group of Harald Schäfer from 1964-1966 and finished his habilitation in 1971. In 1972, he was appointed as an associate professor at the University of Münster. Starting in 1974, he was a member of the Max-Planck Society and one of the directors at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. Since 1975, he was a honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2010, he has been an emeritus.Research
Simon worked on a wide range of topics in inorganic chemistry:- Alkali Metal Suboxides
- Subnitrides of Alkaline Earth Metals
- Metal-rich Halides and Oxides of Heavy d-Metals
- Condensed Clusters
- Interstitial Atoms in Metal Clusters
- Metalrich Binary and Ternary Halides of Lanthanides
- Thorium Cluster Compounds
- Intermetallic Compounds
- Structures and Phase Transitions in Molecular Crystals
- Structure Property Relations
- Superconductivity
- Apparatus Development
Awards
Simon was awarded a number of awards and honorary doctorates:- 1972 Chemistry Award of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1985 Wilhelm Klemm Award of the Society of German Chemists
- 1987 Otto Bayer Award
- 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of Technical University Dresden
- 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of University Karlsruhe
- 1998 Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2001 Dr. phil. h.c. of Stockholm University
- 2002 Dr. h.c. of Université de Rennes I
- 2004 Sir Nevill Mott Lecture, University of Loughborough
- 2004 Liebig-Denkmünze of the Society of German Chemists
- 2011 Terrae Rarae Award
- 1989 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
- 1990 Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1992 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1998 Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India