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Born in Nuremberg, he began studying chemistry in 1954 at his home university, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1962, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and was awarded his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis supervised by Prof. Dr Gerhard Hesse on ‘The influence of temperature on the absorption chromatography of solutions’. During his time as a research assistant, a research visit in 1969–70 took him to the Department of Chemistry at Northeastern University in Boston, headed by Barry L. Karger. Upon his return, he completed his habilitation in 1971 at Erlangen-Nuremberg in the field of analytical organic chemistry with a thesis entitled ‘Investigations into carrier materials for high-pressure liquid chromatography’.
Immediately afterwards, the honouree accepted a post at Saarland University as a professor at the Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry. In 1979, he held a visiting professorship at Northeastern University in Boston. In 1994, Heinz Engelhardt founded the Institute for Instrumental Analysis/Environmental Analysis at Saarland University, which he headed until his retirement in 2002.
In 1998–99, he held visiting professorships at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck; he also held a further visiting professorship in Innsbruck during his retirement until 2006 and served on the Austrian Science Council from 2004 to 2007. Through his involvement in international expert committees, his analyses and over 250 publications, Heinz Engelhardt has had a decisive influence on the broad field of research into the development of high-performance separation techniques. His name is also associated with standard works on ‘high-pressure liquid chromatography’ and ‘capillary electrophoresis’, which have been translated into several languages, and as an academic tutor he supervised around a hundred PhD students.
In addition to being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aix-en-Provence, the Pregl Medal from the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry and the Clemens Winkler Medal from the German Chemical Society, the honouree’s scientific achievements have also been recognised with the Stephan Dal Nogare Award, the Martin Medal from the British ‘Chromatographic Society’ and the Halasz Medal from the ‘Hungarian Society for Separation Sciences’.
Contact:
Dr Wolfgang Müller, University Archives
wolfgang.mueller(at)uni-saarland.de and dr.wolfgang-mueller(at)t-online.de