Hanns-Peter Boehm

Hanns-Peter Boehm (9 January 1928^[1] – 10 May 2022)^[2] was a German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene research.^[3][4]

Hanns-Peter Boehm
Born	(1928-01-09)9 January 1928 Paris, France
Died	10 May 2022(2022-05-10) (aged 94)
Nationality	German
Education	University of Regensburg Technische Universität Darmstadt
Scientific career
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Ulrich Hofmann
Doctoral students	Robert Schlögl

Biography

Hanns-Peter Boehm studied chemistry in Regensburg from 1947 to 1951. He received his doctorate in 1953 at Technische Universität Darmstadt,^[5] where he also received his habilitation in 1959 with the treatise Oberflächenchemie und Adsorption an Kohlenstoff und SiO₂. In 1961, Boehm, together with Ralph Setton and Eberhard Stumpp, isolated and identified single graphene sheets by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction. In 1986 they authored the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) report formally defining the term graphene.^[6] In 1970 Boehm became professor and director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; in 1994 he retired to the status of professor emeritus.