Walter Kaminsky

Kaminsky was born in Hamburg, Germany on 7 May 1941. He studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD under Hansjörg Sinn in 1978 and obtained his habilitation in 1982, both at the University of Hamburg. He was a faculty member at the University of Hamburg since 1977, and later became a full professor for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry. He retired and became an emeritus professor in 2006.

He was awarded, among other prizes, the Körber European Science Prize in 1988, the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal,{{cite web|title=Walter Kaminsky|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/walter-kaminsky|website=The Franklin Institute|date=10 January 2014 |accessdate=6 September 2017}} and the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2002. In 2024, he was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Walter Kaminsky |url=https://plasticshof.org/members/dr-walter-kaminsky/ |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=plasticshof.org}}

Kaminsky died on 23 November 2024, at the age of 83.[https://hamburgertrauer.de/traueranzeige/walter-kaminsky Walter Kaminsky] {{in lang|de}}

• {{Cite book |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-83276-5 |title=Transition Metals and Organometallics as Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization |date=1988 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-642-83278-9 |editor-last=Kaminsky |editor-first=Walter |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-83276-5 |editor-last2=Sinn |editor-first2=Hansjörg}}
• {{Cite book |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-60178-1 |title=Metalorganic Catalysts for Synthesis and Polymerization |date=1999 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-642-64292-0 |editor-last=Kaminsky |editor-first=Walter |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-60178-1}}
• {{Cite book |editor-last=Scheirs |editor-first=John |editor2-last=Kaminsky |editor2-first=Walter |title=Metallocene based polyolefins: preparation, properties, and technology |volume=1 |date=2000 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-99911-9 |location=Chichester Weinheim}}
• {{Cite book |title=Metallocene-based polyolefins: preparation, properties, and technology |date=2000 |volume=2 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-98086-5 |editor-last=Scheirs |editor-first=John |location=Chichester ; New York |editor-last2=Kaminsky |editor-first2=W.}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm68568114 |title=Olefin polymerization: selected contributions from the conference in Hamburg (Germany), October 10-12, 2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Wiley-VCH Verlag |isbn=978-3-527-31742-4 |editor-last=Kaminsky |editor-first=W. |series=Macromolecular symposia |location=Weinheim, Germany |oclc=ocm68568114}}
• {{Cite book |last=Scheirs |first=John |title=Feedstock recycling and pyrolysis of waste plastics: converting waste plastics into diesel and other fuels |last2=Kaminsky |first2=Walter |date=2006 |publisher=J. Wiley & sons |isbn=978-0-470-02152-1 |series=Wiley series in polymer science |location=Chichester}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-40808-3 |title=Polyolefins: 50 years after Ziegler and Natta I: Polyethylene and Polypropylene |date=2013 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-642-40807-6 |editor-last=Kaminsky |editor-first=Walter |series=Advances in Polymer Science |volume=257 |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-40808-3}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-40805-2 |title=Polyolefins: 50 years after Ziegler and Natta II: Polyolefins by Metallocenes and Other Single-Site Catalysts |date=2013 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-642-40804-5 |editor-last=Kaminsky |editor-first=Walter |series=Advances in Polymer Science |volume=258 |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-40805-2}}

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