German chemist and academic administrator
Wolfgang Anton Herrmann (born 18 April 1948) is a German chemist and academic administrator . From 1995 to 2019, he was President of the Technical University of Munich .[ 1]
Education
Herrmann attended the Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim , where he passed the Abitur in 1967. He then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich on a scholarship from Cusanuswerk , where he wrote his diploma thesis in 1971 under the supervision of Ernst Otto Fischer , a later Nobel Prize laureate. He received his doctorate in 1973 at the University of Regensburg . After a research fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with Philip Skell at the Pennsylvania State University from 1975 to 1976, he habilitated at the University of Regensburg in 1978.[ 2]
Career
Herrmann was appointed professor at the University of Regensburg in 1979. In 1982, he transferred to the Goethe University Frankfurt . In 1985, he succeeded Ernst Otto Fischer at the Department of Chemistry of the Technical University of Munich . From 1988 to 1990, he was dean of the department.[ 2]
In 1995, Herrmann was elected President of the Technical University of Munich . He was reelected in 1999, 2005, 2007 and 2013.
Research
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Awards
References
Directors(1868–1903) Rectors(1903–1976) Presidents(since 1976)
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