Humboldt, Alexander

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1847-8. Cosmos Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, translated under the superintendence of E. Sabine, 2 vols. London Longman, Brown, Green Longmans. 

Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859) German naturalist and explorer, Prassian minister, philosopher, and linguist founder of the University of Berlin (1810), which has strongly influenced other European and Western universities. 

In their work on the monograph the authors were partially supported by the Russian Fund for Basic Research under grant 97-01-00896 and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 

This work has been supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research (grants 00-15-97320 99-03-33132a). V.I.M. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Research Award 1999). 

The generous support of Alexander von Humboldt-Stif-tung, Bonn, Germany, is gratefully acknowledged. One of the authors (I. R.) was granted a scholarship. 

Acknowledgements. We are grateful to the National Science Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung for financial support. 

The authors thank the Argentinian Fimding Agencies GlGyT-UNSE, GONIGET, and ANPCyT. CDB thanks also Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Georg Foster Fellowship. 

This chapter was written when the author was at the University of Ulm (Germany) as a research award winner of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. 

This work was partly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The computational facilities at the CCMST have been supported under NSF grant CHE 04-43564. 

Acknowledgements We are grateful for continued financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the University of Granada and Spanish Ministerio de Education y Ciencia for postdoctoral grants. 

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) recognised meteorites as being a source of extraterrestrial material. Several well-known chemists carried out analyses of material from meteorites, starting at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Thus Louis-Jacques Thenard (1777-1857) found carbon in Alais meteorites these results were confirmed in 1834 by Jons Jacob Berzelius, who by dint of very careful work was also able to detect water of crystallisation in meteoritic material. 

I gratefully acknowledge support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation (through grants CHE 9502320 and CHE 9732604 to A.Y. and CHE 9522057 to the Department of Chemistry), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Part of this work was completed when I was on sabbatical at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. I thank Professor Biman Bagchi and other members of the S.S.C.U. for their hospitality. 

The authors thank Prof. R. R. Schmidt, University of Konstanz, for making available library facilities for the literature unavailable to us. Thanks also go to the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation for support to Prof. E. S. H. El Ashry during his leave of absence at the University of Konstanz. 

Acknowledgements Support of this work by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Program for investment in the Future (ZIP)) and INTAS (Project 01-607) is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgments We would like to thank the National Science Foundation (DMR-0135233, DMR-0703988, Chem-0456719, Chem-0723497), the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (36730-G7), the Dupont Company, the 3 M Company, the Simitomo Company, the Rhom and Haas Company, and the Univesity of California at Irvine for generous financial support. ZG gratefully acknowledges a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. CSP acknowledges an Allergan Fellowship, a UCI dissertation fellowship, and the Joan Rowland award from UCI. 

Acknowledgements. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft e. V. over many years, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (O. Okay) and Prof. U. Seitz for updating the numbers of publications on microgels and for an investigation of Literature. 

T.G. thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research fellowship. This publication was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft and by the Hungarian Research Foundation (Project No. T025114). 

Acknowledgements. The work on the development of transition metal catalysts described herein was funded by Degussa AG, Saltigo GmBH, Merck KGA, the BMBF, the FCI, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the Max-Buchner-... 

Acknowledgements The contributions from my students and colleagues together with support of the University of New South Wales, the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung are gratefully acknowledged. The rewarding collabora-... 

His many scientific contributions and their industrial applications were recognized by the awards and honors he received. They include the American Chemical Society Kendall Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry in 1973, the American Chemical Society Lubrizol Award in Petroleum Chemistry in 1983, and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. The Robert L. Burwell Lectureship Award of the North American Catalysis Society was established in recognition of his outstanding contributions to catalysis. Professor Burwell was also known for the first short course in heterogeneous catalysis, which he taught for several years with Michel Boudart. 

PR thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a visiting Fellowship to Munich. 

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