Tributsch, Helmut

Tributsch, Desintegration] Tributsch, Helmut The Oxidative Desintegration of Suifide Crystals by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Die Naturwissenschaften 63... 

Acknowledgements for the financial support are given at the end of each chapter. We are also thankful to Prof. Dr. Tjeerd Schaafsma (President of the ESQSEC) and Prof. Dr. Helmut Tributsch, who continuously supported our idea to write this book, and to Mr. Ilja A. Kokorin for technical assistance in the preparation of the book. 

Helmut Tributsch obtained his PhD degree in physical chemistry at the Technical University, Mnnich, in 1968, working with Heinz Gerischer, and snbseqnently continued research with Melvin Calvin at the University of Berkeley. For the next ten years he worked in different institutions inclnding Stanford University, the CNRS in Paris and the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin. Since 1982, he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Free University in Berlin and head of the department at the Hahn-Meitner Institute specialising in research on sustainable energy systems. 

S. licht is grateful to Helmut Tributsch for his review and su estions on theoretical sections of this chapter and thankful for the support hy the BMBF Israel-German Cooperation and the Berman-Shein Solar Fund. Maheshwar Sharon is thankful to his students and in special to G. Ranga Rao who contributed toward development and modification of PEC cell. 

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