Keim, Wilhelm

The origin of this book stems from a biweekly lectureship that A.S.B. held at the RWTH Aachen (in Aachen, Germany) from 1991 to 2000, first at the Institute of Biotechnology under the late Harald Voss, then in the Institute ofTechnical Chemistry and Petroleum Chemistry under Wilhelm Keim. A.S.B. expressly thanks Wilhelm Keim for his continued support and advice, not just with the lectureship but also during his habilitation. 

Wilhelm Keim, Nickel An element with wide application in industrial homogeneous catalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 29 (1990), p. 236. 

Gahn but not Rinman or Keim. Why Of course Gahn s careful work was the basis of the success. But a contributory factor was his co-operation with Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Bergman. Their great scientific authority supported the acceptance of Gahn as the discoverer by the whole chemical world. 

Wilhelm Keim (born 1934) performed his PhD thesis with Ciinther Wilke at the Max-Planck-lnstitut fur Kohlenforschung, Miilheim, Germany. After post-doctoral work with Professor Katz at the University of Colombia he joined the Shell research laboratories in Emeryville in 1964. He quickly became a group leader and, later, head of petrochemical research and manager of oil refining. In 1972 he moved to the University of Technology Aachen, Germany, where he headed the Chair of Technical Chemistry until 2001. 

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