| Armin Weiss | |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Stefling part of Nittenau, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Death Place: | Munich, Germany |
| Field: | inorganic chemistry |
| Work Institution: | University of Heidelberg 1961–1965 University of Munich 1965–1996 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Regensburg University of Würzburg Darmstadt University of Technology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ulrich Hofmann |
| Doctoral Students: | Gerhard Lagaly, Brigitte Eisenmann |
| Prizes: | Liebig Medal 1981 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 |
Armin Weiss (or Weiß in German script) (5 November 1927 – 7 December 2010)[1] was a German inorganic chemist and politician of the Green Party.
Weiss was born and raised in Stefling (near Nittenau), not far from Wackersdorf, where during the 1980s, the West German nuclear industry began building the nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf. Upset by this move, Weiss took leave from his position as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and began making public appearances in opposition to the plant. Eventually the construction of Wackersdorf was stopped. Later, as a member of the Bavarian state government, he continued to oppose nuclear plants. In 2007, Professor Weiss received the Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] [3]
The intercalation in clay minerals was major research interest during the start of his academic career. Urea has been used as compound for the production of high quality china for a long time but the mechanism of action was first described by Weiss in 1961.[3] [4] [5]