George Blasse

George Blasse (28 August 1934 – 30 December 2020) was a Dutch chemist. He was a professor of solid-state chemistry at Utrecht University for most of his career.

Blasse was born on 28 August 1934 in Amsterdam.^[1] He studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. In 1964 he obtained his PhD under E.W. Gorter at Leiden University with a dissertation titled: Chrystal chemistry and some magnetic properties of mixed metal oxides with spinel structure. From 1960 to 1970 Blasse was employed by the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium.^[2] In 1970 he was appointed as professor of solid-state chemistry at Utrecht University. He retired in 1996.^[1]

Blasse was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982.^[3] In 1992 he was awarded the Academy's Gilles Holst Medal.^[4] Blasse was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.^[5] In 1996 he was made a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.^[6]

He died in Munich, Germany, on 30 December 2020, aged 86.^[7]

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