Leo De Maeyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leo De Maeyer

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Hombeek, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 18-Jun-2014

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Leo Carl Maria De Maeyer (8 December 1927 – 18 June 2014) was a Belgian physical chemist.
He made an important contribution to the development of instrumental methods for the measurement of fast chemical reactions which led to the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry given to Manfred Eigen.
De Maeyer did his main scientific work at the Max-Planck-Institute for physical chemistry at Göttingen, Germany.