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Place of Birth: Wustrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Klaus Praefcke
- Klaus Praefcke (3 January 1933 – 20 November 2013) was a German chemist.
- He was born in Wustrow and studied in Berlin under the supervision of Alexander Schönberg.
- After completing his Ph.D.
- in 1963 and his habilitation in 1970, he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin in 1971.
- He stayed dedicated to the research until 1998 at the same institution. Praefcke has published more than 300 scientific papers dedicated to organic synthesis.
- He is known for his contributions to preparative organic photochemistry as well as physics and chemistry of liquid crystals.
- Several novel types of liquid crystals have been synthesized by Praefcke for the first time.
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