Anton Amann
Austrian professor of chemistry (1956–2015)
Anton Amann (20 June 1956 – 6 January 2015) was an Austrian chemist and
Professor of chemistry at the Innsbruck Medical University.
He worked in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis.
Amann was the head of the Breath Research Institute of the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (formerly an Institute of the Austrian Academy of Science) and editor in chief of the Journal of Breath Research.
He authored more than 150 scientific articles. He died in Innsbruck in 2015.
Career
After studying chemistry at the ETH Zürich, he continued with a PhD in Science. The title of his dissertation 1984 with Hans Primas and Norbert Straumann was Observable in der W*-algebraischen Quantenmechanik (observables in W*-algebraic quantum mechanics). In 1991 he earned Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the ETH Zürich. From 1987 to 1995 he was a senior research associate at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the ETH Zürich.
In 1995 he was awarded an APART grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and he also received an invitation to join Yale University as associate professor.
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