Prof. Dr Michael Ruck is awarded the Wilhelm Klemm Prize

Prof. Dr. Michael Ruck of the Technische Universität Dresden will be awarded the Wilhelm Klemm Prize of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) on September 6. The award ceremony will take place during the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2023 in Leipzig. The prize recognizes Prof. Rucks' outstanding contributions to solid-state chemistry, especially in the field of compounds with bismuth and phosphorus.

The Wilhelm Klemm Prize, endowed with 7500 euros, commemorates Professor Wilhelm Klemm from Münster, who advanced inorganic chemistry with his research. The GDCh awards the prize to individuals who have done outstanding work in the field of inorganic chemistry. Michael Rucks' research is characterized by its conceptual and methodological breadth. He convinced the committee with his decisive contributions to solid-state compounds, ranging from synthesis and structural characterization to nanomaterials and coordination compounds. One result of his research, for example, was the discovery of the fibrous modification of the element phosphorus - now also known as Ruck's phosphorus.

Michael Ruck, born in 1963 in Pforzheim, studied chemistry at the University (TH) of Karlsruhe. In 1991, he received his doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the University of Stuttgart. Afterwards, Ruck worked first as a research associate and later as a research assistant at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe. During this time, he habilitated in 1997 in the subject of inorganic chemistry and was appointed Privatdozent. Since 2000 he holds the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry II at the TU Dresden.