Von Humboldt

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 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. 

One excretory organic product of particular interest and importance, discovered on islands off the coast of Peru by Alexander von Humboldt in 1802, was guano. He studied this product, which became a widely exploited fertilizer material that was transported and sold around the world [11],... 

In addition to nitrate and other nitrogen compounds, guano contains phosphate and potassium, thus making it a good fertilizer. Deposits of guano were discovered and studied by Alexander von Humboldt in 1802 [11], This source of fertilizer had thus been known for some time before the development of the Haber process for producing ammonia. However, guano was and is limited and unsustainable as a source of fertilizer for crops, particularly on a worldwide basis. 

M. H would like to thank the organizers of the workshop for invitation and offering a financial support. The work of M. H. was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, and the NSFC under Grant Nos. 10105005, 10135030. The work of I.A.S. was supported by Gesellschaft fiir Schweri-onenforschung (GSI) and by Bundesministerium fiir Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). 

Bill was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970, he was chairman of its Chemistry Section during 1977-1981, and he was member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1951 and 1966, a National Science Foundation Senior Fellowship in 1958, and a Miller Research Professorship at Berkeley in 1963. His numerous honors from the American Chemical Society include the California Section Award in 1959, the Ernest Guenther Award in 1973, and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1990. Among the international recognitions Bill received are a U.S. Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux, two Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Awards, and an honorary membership in Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. 

Dr Bhushan has a research experience of 41 years. He received prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship of Germany in the year 1988, and worked for research at the University of Oldenburg, and at the University of Giessen, Germany. He received European Economic Community Fellowship in 1992 and worked at University of Bristol, UK, on Rye protein. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (including Chartered Chemist). He also worked on establishment of primary structures of proteins of Peanut, Brassica, and Soybean, and published several research papers from Univ of Roorkee. He also worked as post doc fellow at the Washington State University, USA. 

Scientific Research at Sapporo, and to the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn, for repeated support of E. O. in Germany, which led to this joint writing project. 

Our research was generously supported by the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, the Volkswagen Stiftung, and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Luc Brunsveld would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and the BMBF for support via the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. 

The author is highly indebted for continuous support from OTKA Grant Numbers T 026335 and T 019464. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundations are also gratefully acknowledged for financial support. Some of the criticism and suggestions of the referees is also appreciated. 

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