Hermann Schmalzried (born 21 January 1932 in Koblenz) is a German chemist known for his work in physical chemistry, especially on the thermodynamics and kinetics of solid state chemistry.
Schmalzried received his diploma (with a diploma thesis on the fluorescence of benzopyrene) from Theodor Förster at the University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1958 at the Roentgen Institute of the University of Stuttgart with Richard Glocker (1890-1978) and was a postdoc with Carl Wagner at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, a pioneer in solid state chemistry.
He habilitated in 1966 at the Leibniz University Hannover on the topic of disorder in ternary ionic crystals.
[1][2] He wrote two textbooks on chemical reactions in solids, which were internationally standard works.
[2] He was awarded an honorary doctor at the University of Stuttgart in 2003.