Through his work, Prof. Richard R. Schrock remarkably demonstrates how a concept from fundamental research study can progress into a technology that, decades later on, makes industrial chemistry more sustainable. In his Preliminary Glow lecture, he will recount his amazing clinical and individual journey. Prof. Schrock will focus on his advancement of olefin metathesis, a catalytic innovation that enables carbon-carbon bonds to be rearranged selectively. He was granted the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 for this groundbreaking research.
His story remarkably demonstrates the effect that long-lasting, exceptional fundamental research can have: What when started in the lab is now being executed on an industrial scale in Germany for the very first time. The biofuel business VERBIO is commissioning a worldwide unique plant in Bitterfeld that utilizes Schrock’s Nobel Prize-winning technology to produce sustainable chemicals from rapeseed oil methyl ester for commercial usage. That is why, one week after the Preliminary Spark lecture, he is going to be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony in Bitterfeld.
We owe it to Dr. Thomas Seidensticker from the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering that we were able to secure Richard R. Schrock, who has actually been at the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation considering that 1975, for the Preliminary Spark lecture. He welcomed the Nobel Prize laureate as the keynote speaker for a conference of the German Chemical Society, which will occur at TU Dortmund University in early October.
The Preliminary Glow lecture series uses the chance to speak with a Nobel laureate and find out how clinical interest, perseverance, and innovative research can cause concrete solutions for a more sustainable future. The lecture, entitled “My Not likely Journey to the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Beyond,” will be followed by a panel conversation.
The occasion will be conducted primarily in English. Registration is asked for.
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