Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry

P. Crutzen (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz), M. Molina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) andF. S. Rowland (Irvine, California) work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. 

A corroboration of the theory that the moon was formed mostly from material coming from the Earth is due to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for chemistry in Mainz (Mtinker et al., 2003). The chemical analysis of material from the surface of the moon shows great similarity with material from the Earth s crust however, there are certain differences. For example, the concentration of iron on the moon is much lower than that on Earth. 

GEERT K. MOORTGAT Max-Planck-Institut for Chemistry Atmospheric Chemistry Division P.O.Box 3060 55020 Mainz Germany... 

Moortgat Geert Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, PO Box 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany Tel. Fax E-mail +49 6131 305 476 +49 6131 305 436 moof2jmpch-mainz.mpg.de... 

Figure 2.5 Presolar grains from primitive meteorites. Left presolar SiC from the Murchison meteorite scale bar is 200 nm. Middle presolar graphite from Murchison scale bar is 1 pm. Right presolar silicate grain (within the white circle) in the matrix of the Acfer 094 meteorite scale bar is 500 nm. Photo credit Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.

Airchemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry Otto-Hahn-Institut, POB 3060, D-6500 Mainz, F.R.G,... 

Amsterdam in 1933. He was trained as a meteorologist and became interested in stratospheric chemistry and statospheric ozone in particular. He is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. 

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, J.-J.-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany E. Reimer... 

Lammel Prof. Dr. Gerhard, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany And Masaryk University, Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry And Ecotoxicology, Bmo Czech Republic e-mail g.lammel mpic.de... 

Lammel Gerhard, Professor, Researeh Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Masaryk University, Kameniee 3, 62500, Bmo, Czech Republic, e-mail lammel recetox.muni.cz. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz Germany,... 

Rowland, Molina, and Paul Crutzen (a Dutch chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany) were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry. As the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in awarding the prize, "By explaining the chemical mechanisms that affect the thickness of the ozone layer, these three researchers have contributed to our salvation from a global environmental problem that could have catastrophic consequences."... 

A schematic diagramme of the automated system is shown in Rg. 24-1. Major parts of the analytical apparatus are custom-built by the workshops of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Mainz, Germany. However, the main features of the method are easily adapted with commercially available equipment. 

A specially designed single-flame FPD (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry), equipped with an interference filter (Hewlett-Packard, peak transmission at 394 nm ) and a Hamamatsu Model R268 photomultiplier was used by the author. However, most commercially... 

As noted before, reaction (14) does not occur in the gas phase, but it readily occurs on wetted particulate surfaces. These are always present in the lower stratosphere in the form of sulfate particles, a fact which was first discovered by Christian Junge, a pioneer in atmospheric chemistry and my predecessor as director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz [59]. The sulfate particles are formed by nucleation of gas phase H2SO4, which is formed Ifom SO2, following attack by OH [60, 61] [Eqs. (31)-(33)]. 

Paul J. Crutzen after the announcement of the Nobel Prize award. Reception organized by employees at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz October 1995. Photo by Alfred Klemm (MPIC)... 

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul Cmtzen, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany (Dutch citizen). Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA and Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, VS A for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. 

Current research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz aims at an integral understanding of chemical processes in the Earth system, particularly in the atmosphere and biosphere. Investigations address a wide range of interactions between air, water, soil, hfe and chmate in the course of Earth history up to today s human-driven epoch, the Anthropocene see at http //www.mpic.de/en/employees/ honors-and-awards/the-anthropocene.html. 

Research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has been at the forefront of science throughout its existence. Since the Institute s foundation in 1912, three of its directors were awarded with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Richard Willstatter in 1915 for the revelation of the structure of chlorophyll and other plant pigments, Otto Hahn in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission, and Paul Cmtzen in 1995 for the elucidation of atmospheric ozone chemistry. 

Nowadays, the research focus of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry is on Earth System science, in particular on the chemical processes occurring in the atmosphere and their interactions with the biosphere and oceans. It also includes the influence of humans, as unprecedented urbanization and industrialization in the past centuries have changed the course of natural processes on our planet, in an epoch now known as the Anthropocene. 

Address Prof. Paul J. Crutzen, via Ms. Astrid Kaltenbach, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto-Hahn-Institut, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128 Mainz, Germany. Email astrid.kaltenbach mpic.de Website http //www. mpic.de/index.php id=31 type=0. 

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