| Birth Date: | 16 March 1935 |
| Death Place: | Aachen, Germany |
| Occupation: | chemist |
Peter Paetzold (March 16, 1935 – August 17, 2023[1]) was a German chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.[2]
He studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1961, he received his doctorate in the working group of Egon Wiberg; in his dissertation he dealt with the thermal decomposition of borazides. After his habilitation (1966), he taught for two more years at the LMU. He then moved to a chair of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University. In his research, he mainly dealt with the molecular chemistry of the element boron, especially with iminoboranes and cluster compounds.[3] His list of publications includes about 180 papers. Paetzold retired in 2000. After various books and textbooks on chemistry, he published a textbook on general chemistry in autumn 2009.[4] In 2015, a scientific colloquium in his honor took place.[5] He was married and had 4 children.
1998 Alfred Stock Memorial Prize
Paetzold, P.: Chemie – Eine Einführung, Walter de Gruyter Berlin und New York, 2009,