Peter Paetzold (March 16, 1935 – August 17, 2023[1]) was a German chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.

[2] In 1961, he received his doctorate in the working group of Egon Wiberg; in his dissertation he dealt with the thermal decomposition of borazides.

[2] He then moved to a chair of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.

[2] In his research, he mainly dealt with the molecular chemistry of the element boron, especially with iminoboranes and cluster compounds.

[2] 1998 Alfred Stock Memorial Prize Paetzold, P.: Chemie – Eine Einführung, Walter de Gruyter Berlin und New York, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020268-7