Diethard Bohme

Professor Diethard Bohme is internationally recognized as a distinguished scholar and pioneer with an outstanding record of achievement in scientific research. He has made seminal contributions in physical organic chemistry, flame-ion chemistry, chemistry in the earth's ionosphere, astrochemistry, and the chemistry and metal-ion chemistry of large carbon clusters. His many scholarly articles, reviews and invited lectures at learned institutions have had a significant impact in three disciplines: chemistry, physics and astronomy. Professor Bohme's research achievements have been recognized often, both nationally and internationally: he has received the Society's Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (1981), an Alexander von Humboldt Prize (1990/91) and a Killam Research Fellowship (1991/93). In 1998 Professor Bohme was the recipient of the John C. Polanyi Award in Physical Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry.