Karl Weighardt | |
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| Born | July 25, 1942 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Inorganic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry Ruhr University Bochum |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Siebert |
| Other academic advisors | A. Geoffrey Sykes |
| Doctoral students | Karsten Meyer, Carsten Krebs |
| Other notable students | John Berry (postdoc), Connie C. Lu (postdoc) |
Karl Wieghardt (born 25 July 1942, in Göttingen) is a German inorganic chemist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim. He was active in the preparation and detailed characterization of models for iron and manganese metalloenzymes, metal complexes of noninnocent ligands, and magnetic interactions in polynuclear metal complexes.