Heinemann, Heinz.

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Heinz Heinemann was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. As a Jew coming of age during the Nazi regime, Heinemann's opportunities were limited and so he immigrated to Switzerland where he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Basel. In 1938 he again immigrated, this time to United States where he found employment from 1941 to 1948 as a research supervisor at the Attapulgas Clay Company. In 1948 he joined the Houdry Process Corporation and in 1957 he moved on to the W. M. Kellogg Company as Vice-President in Charge of Research and later as director of research. From 1969 to 1978 he was at Mobil Research and Development Corporation where he served as Manager of Catalysis Research in their laboratory at Princeton. Retiring in 1978, he went to work for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a senior scientist studying new catalytic processes. He retired from this position in 1995 but continued working out of the Washington D.C. office of LBNL as a Distinguished Scientist and serving as liaison between the laboratory and the Department of Energy.

Best known for his process of converting methanol to gasoline, Heinemann held over 75 patents and published over 150 papers. Heinemann edited Catalysis Reviews for 16 years and was a consulting editor for Marcel Dekker, Inc., advising them on over 90 publications. He co-founded the Philadelphia Catalysis Club, the Catalysis Society of North America and the International Congress on Catalysis. Among the many awards he received were the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial Engineering Chemistry (from the A.C.S.) and the E.J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis (from the Catalysis Society). Heinz Heinemann died on November 23, 2005.

From the description of The Papers of Heinz Heinemann , 1940-1992 (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 753875605

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