Konrad Seppelt


Konrad Seppelt is a German chemist and the former Vice President of the Free University of Berlin. He leads the research group AG Seppelt at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Free University of Berlin.
Positions held include:
In the year 2000 Konrad Seppelt was the first scientist to form a compound between a noble gas and a noble metal, something that had previously been deemed impossible due to the inert nature of these chemical groups. In a series of experiments the compound Tetraxenonogold was developed and subsequently published in Science.
From 1980 to 1982 he was the youngest Professor in West Germany.

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Konrad Seppelt has published over 350 publications, including several papers in journals such as Science.

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