Walter Kaminsky

Chemist, Person

1941 –

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Who is Walter Kaminsky?

Walter Kaminsky is a German chemist. His research dwells in olefin polymerization, and also in plastic recycling. He discovered the high activity of Group 4 metallocene/methylaluminoxane mixtures as catalysts for olefin polymerization in 1980.

He was awarded, among other prizes, the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2002.

Kaminsky was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, in which he's full professor for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, since 1979.

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Born
May 7, 1941
Hamburg
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Education
  • University of Hamburg

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on July 23, 2013

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