Hanns-Peter Boehm | |
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Born | 9 January 1928 Paris, France |
Nationality | German |
Fields | Chemist |
Institutions | University of Munich |
Alma mater | Darmstadt University of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Ulrich Hofmann |
Hanns-Peter Boehm (Born 9 January 1928[1] in Paris) is a German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene research.[2][3]
Hanns-Peter Boehm studied chemistry in Regensburg from 1947 to 1951. He received his doctorate in 1953 at Darmstadt University of Technology,[4] where he also received his habilitation in 1959 with the treatise Oberflächenchemie und Adsorption an Kohlenstoff und SiO2. In 1970 Boehm became professor and director of the Institute for Anorganic Chemistry of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; in 1994 he retired to the status of a professor emeritus.