Prof. Dr. Helmut Sigel
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut
Sigel
Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
University of Basel
Spitalstrasse 51, CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Phone: ++41-61-267 1007 (office), ++41-61-267 1033
(Laboratory)
FAX: ++41-61-267 1017 (office)
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Helmut Sigel is Professor Emeritus (2003)
of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he
has been Dozent since 1967. He spent the academic year 1968-1969 in
the United States at Cornell University in Ithaca (N.Y.).
Dr. Sigel is a member of several chemical societies and various Editorial
Boards of international journals, editor - together with Astrid Sigel and
Prof. Dr. Roland K. O. Sigel - of the series "Metal Ions in Biological Systems"
until 2005 (volume 44) and since 2006 of the series "Metal Ions in Life
Sciences" (see below). He was chairman of the programme
on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems of the European Science
Foundation (Strasbourg) (1991-1993); during 1994-1998 he also served as a member
of the Steering Committee of the mentioned programme. He was the Swiss
representative in the Management Comittees of the COST D8 programme Chemistry
of Metals in Medicine (1999-2001) and of the COST D20 programme Metal
Compounds in the Treatment of Cancer and Viral Diseases (2000-2006).
For the term 1998-2002 he was a member of the Council of the Society for
Biological Inorganic Chemistry; since 1998 he is also at the
International Advisory Board of the Research Center for Materials
Science at Nagoya University (Japan). He was named Protagonist in Chemistry
(2002) by Inorganica Chimica Acta (issue 339). Among further honors he
received are the Priyadaranjan Ray Award (Indian Chemical Society, of
which he is also an Honorary Fellow), the Werner Award (Swiss Chemical
Society), a Doctor of Science honoris causa degree (Kalyani
University, India), several Endowed Lecturerships and appointments as
Visiting Professor, including at Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) University in
Guangzhou, China (1992-2000), the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2004), the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2006), and the University of Kuwait
(2009). His research interests within 'Bioinorganic Chemistry' focus on the
stability, structure, and reactivity of simple and mixed ligand metal ion
complexes of nucleotides, nucleotide analogues, amino acids, peptides, and other
bio-ligands. He lectured worldwide and published over 300 articles on these and
related subjects.
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Please note:
The editorship of the series Metal Ions in Biological Systems (1973 - 2005) was terminated with Volume 44 (2005) and in 2006 the new series Metal Ions in Life Sciences initiated. The first four volumes of the latter series were published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK
(see http://www.wiley.com/go/mils or http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-300350.html),
and Volumes 5 (2009) through 9 (2011) by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
(see http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/series/85.asp?seriesid=85)
Since Volume 10 (2012) the series is published by Springer SBM, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; for further information about the series see the MILS website by Springer
http://www.mils-series.com
Some information is also found on Wikipedia.
last updated by Astrid Sigel at July 25, 2011