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Arndt Simon (born 14 January 1940) 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 (Pauling-Simon Rule)
Structures and Phase Transitions in Molecular Crystals
Structure Property Relations (Photo Cathodes, Amorphous Metals, Magnetic Order and Frustration, Spin Crossover, Spin Glasses)
Superconductivity
Apparatus Development (Guinier-Simon Camera, Area Detector Diffractometer)




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 (TH) 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
He is also a member of several academies of sciences:

1989 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Corresponding Member since 1994)
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




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