Wilhelm Keim#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1931 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Wilhelm Keim passed away September 30, 2018.
Positions Held
- 2000 Retired (emeritus professor)
- 1987 - 1990 Dean of Faculty I at RWTH Aachen
- 1986 Offer to become President of Bergbauforschung GmbH at Essen (not accepted)
- 1985 Offer to become Director of Deutsches Erdölinstitut (not accepted)
- 1973 - today Full Professor Institut für Technische Chemie und Petrochemie der RWTH Aachen
- 1971 Manager Shell Development - USA - (responsible for fundamental processes and catalyst development)
- 1969 Department Head Shell Development - USA - (responsible for oil conversion processes and catalyst developments)
- 1967 Supervisor Shell Development - USA - (Petrochemicals)
- 1965 Chemist Shell Development - USA - (basic research/discovery of SHOP-process)
- 1964 Postdoctoral fellowship, Columbia University N.Y.
Fields of Scholarship
- Catalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous)
- Oil conversion
- Petro-chemicals
- Fine chemicals C1-chemistry
- Industrial process development
- Green chemistry
- Multiphase processes
- Homogeneous transition metal based catalysis
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Ph.D. at Lille University (France)
- Member of Academia Europea
- Foreign Member of Academy of Sciences (GUS)
- Pino Medaille Italian Chemical Society 1998
- Mittasch Medaille German (DECHEMA) 1998
- Engler Medaille German 1999
- DECHEMA Medaille 2001
- Science 4 life Award 2001
- Fellowship Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Honorary Member of DGMK (2000)
- Honorary Member of DECHEMA (2003)
- Honorary Professor Dalian Technical University (VR China)
- Honorary Professor Zheyiang University (VR China)
- Adjunct Professor King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia)
- Honorary Professor University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)
