Autor: Fritz Vogtle

Born in Ehingen, Germany, in 1939, Fritz Vögtle studied chemistry in Freiburg as well as chemistry and medicine in Heidelberg, where he received his Ph D under Professor Hein A. Staab in 1965 on the valence isomerization of double Schiff bases. After gaining his lecturing qualification he was a professor in Würzburg from 1969 to 1975, before accepting a position as full professor and director of the Kekulé-Institut for Organische Chemie und Biochemie in Bonn. He was awarded a literature prize by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, the LIse Meitner-Alexander von Humboldt Award, the Izatt-Bradshaw-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry and the Adolf von Baeyer medal of the German Chemical Society, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has authored or co-authored several books and numerous scientific papers. Professor Vögtle“s research interests include supramolecular and nano chemistry, dendrimers, cyclophanes, low molecular weight gelators and intertwined molecular architectures. Gabriele Richardt studied chemistry at Bonn, where she was awarded her Ph D under Professor H. Wamhoff in the field of nucleosides. In 2002 she began working in Professor Vögtle“s group, before transferring to the polymer group headed by Professor S. Höger in 2007. Nicole Werner studied chemistry and biology at Bonn, receiving her Ph D in 2004 under Professor F. Vögtle for her work in the dendrimer field. She has been teaching chemistry and physics at German grammar schools since 2006.