Prof. Fritz Scholz – the Eternal Enthusiast and the last follower of Walther Nernst

It was exactly 20 years ago when I arrived as a DAAD Scholar in Greifswald to work on my PhD under supervision of prof. Fritz Scholz. Prof. Scholz retires on September 30th 2021, and a Farewell event took place for the final words of his former scholars in Greifswald on September 11 2021. He is one of the greatest electrochemist of all times. He understood since long ago that the most important energy of all systems is “hidden” in the thermodynamics, he does not like kinetics a lot, and he is aware of the huge potential from understanding the equilibrium processes. He does not stick to one area of research only, he gets involved in biofuel cells, he invented the “solid-state electrochemistry”, he worked on many electrochemical amperometric and potentiometric sensors, mechanism of adsorption of lipids at lipophilic electrodes, ion transfer across immiscible systems. He currently acts as editor-in-chief of at least two excellent scientific journal, he edited more than 20 books from the field of Electrochemistry, he supervised number of PhD students (most of them made impressive scientific and academic carriers), he is a dedicated father and grandfather. Fritz is a real professional, he answers the e-mails within minutes, not hours or days, he is always dedicated to help the others, to understand our problems, to discuss with everyone, to propose solutions. Enjoy your time with the family and find new equilibrium conditions dear Fritz, and never forget about driving force of ionic and electron transfers