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Heinz Heinemann
Pages 140-145

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From page 141...
... The Heinemann family asserts that the Nazi regime refused to accept his Ph.D. thesis because he was Jewish, and that, therefore, Heinemann left Germany for Basel, Switzerland, where he received a Ph.D.
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From page 142...
... He was also awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, known today as Carnegie Mellon University, where he was involved in research on ethanol produced from sugar cane. According to the Heinemann family, the fellowship was funded by President Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, where sugar cane was the primary crop.
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From page 143...
... By contrast, the surface of the alumina support, with halide ions present, provides a source of acidic sites that are active in catalyzing the latter rearrangement reactions but are relatively inactive in catalyzing hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions. This concept of a reforming catalyst with two distinctly different kinds of active sites capable of catalyzing two distinctly different kinds of chemical steps in a reaction sequence was clearly illustrated by the studies of Heinz Heinemann and his fellow scientists.
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From page 144...
... He was also a consulting editor for numerous books in the Chemical Industries Series published by Marcel Dekker Inc. While working at Mobil R&D, he was a member of the Flood Control Commission of Princeton Township and a director of the Princeton Art Association.
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... He will be remembered not only for his very significant contributions to industrial catalysis, but also for his effective role as a senior statesman in the field.
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