Klaus Roth, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, celebrates his 75th birthday on January 30, 2020.
Klaus Roth was born in 1945 in Berlin. He studied chemistry at FUB, Germany, and received his Ph.D. there in 1973 under the supervision of Dieter Rewicki. After research stays at the Institute for Medical Research in London, UK, and the University of California, San Francisco, USA, he returned to Berlin in 1989 as Professor at FUB. From 1991 to 1999, he was Director of the Dahlem Conferences, an initiative of FUB to promote interdisciplinary cooperation.
Klaus Roth’s research interests are nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging techniques. As an author, he introduces a wide audience to everyday aspects of chemistry. As one of our longest-running contributors, Klaus Roth has authored a very popular series of articles on the chemistry of everyday items. The articles have also been published in German in the journal Chemie in unserer Zeit, as well as in his books. Roth has been awarded the literature prize of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society) in 2008.
Selected Popular Chemistry Publications
- See all articles by Klaus Roth published in ChemViews Magazine
- Chemische Leckerbissen (in German),
Klaus Roth,
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2014.
ISBN: 978-3-527-33739-2 - Chemische Köstlichkeiten (in German),
Klaus Roth,
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2010.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32752-2 - Chemische Delikatessen (in German),
Klaus Roth,
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2007.
ISBN: 978-3-527-31984-8
Selected Research Publications
- Pr[MOE-DO3A], a Praseodymium Complex of a Tetraazacyclododecane: An In Vivo NMR Thermometer,
K. Roth, G. Bartholomae, H. Bauer, T. Frenzel, S. Kossler, J. Platzek, H.-J. Weinmann,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1996, 35, 655–657.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.199606551 - Noninvasive temperature measurement in Vivo using a temperature-sensitive lanthanide complex and 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy,
Thomas Frenzel, Klaus Roth, Susanne Koßler, Bernd Radüchel, Hans Bauer, Johannes Platzek, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann,
Magn. Reson. Med. 1996, 35, 364–369.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.1910350314 - Struktur und Dynamik von Lanthanoid-Tetraazacyclododecantetraacetat-(DOTA-)Komplexen in Lösung,
Simone Hoeft, Klaus Roth,
Chem. Ber. 1993, 126, 869–873.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cber.19931260404 - Determination of cytosolic ADP and AMP concentrations and the free energy of ATP hydrolysis in human muscle and brain tissues with 31P NMR spectroscopy,
K. Roth, M. W. Weiner,
Magn. Reson. Med. 1991, 22, 505–511.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.1910220258 - NMR-Tomography and -Spectroscopy in Medicine,
Klaus Roth,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1984.
ISBN: 978-3-642-69741-8 - ESR, NMR, and ENDOR studies of partially deuterated phenyl substituted anthracenes. π–σ Delocalization,
R. Biehl, K. Hinrichs, H. Kurreck, W. Lubitz, U. Mennenga, K. Roth,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1977, 99, 4278–4286.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00455a012
Also of Interest
- Homepage of Klaus Roth
- Video: Interview with ChemistryViews Author Klaus Roth,
ChemistryViews.org 2011. - Interview mit Klaus Roth: “Beim Schreiben stelle ich mir einen Lehrer vor” (in German),
Frauke Zbikowski,
Nachr. Chem. 2019, 67, 8–10.
https://doi.org/10.1002/nadc.20194083842
