Heinz Gerischer

Heinz Gerischer
Heinz Gerischer
Born	31 March 1919(1919-03-31) Wittenberg, Germany
Died	September 14, 1994 (aged 75) Berlin, Germany
Residence	Germany
Nationality	Germany
Institutions	Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG
Doctoral advisor	Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer
Doctoral students	Gerhard Ertl

Heinz Gerischer (3 March 1919 - 14 September 1986) was a German chemist and director of the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG till 1986.

The Heinz Gerischer Award of the European section of The Electrochemical Society is named after him.

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Nathan S. Lewis, Helmut Tributsch, and Arthur J. Nozik (1997). "Gerischer,Heinz - March 31, 1919 September 14, 1994 - Biography". Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101 (14): 2391–2391. doi:10.1021/jp970544w.
Kolb DM (1995). "Gerischer,Heinz (1919-1994) - In-Memoriam". Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 384 (1-2): 1–3. doi:10.1016/0022-0728(95)90269-4.
Nozik AJ (1997). "Gerischer,Heinz - March 31, 1919 September 14, 1994". Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101 (14): 2389–2390. doi:10.1021/jp970545o.
"Heinz Gerischer — The man and his science 1919–1994" (1996). Progress in Surface Science 51 (2): 1–4. doi:10.1016/S0079-6816(96)90006-4.