Liebig-Wöhler friendship award

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The Liebig-Wöhler Friendship Prize is a prize for the history of chemistry, which was founded by the descendants of Justus von Liebig ( Wilhelm Lewicki and Loretta Lewicki) and is awarded by the Göttingen Chemical Society. It has been awarded since 1994 and is endowed with 1500 euros. Apart from Liebig, it is named after Friedrich Wöhler , who was friends with Liebig and was also one of the founders of organic chemistry.

Mainly works on Justus von Liebig and his students and his environment are honored.

Award winners

In each case with official reasons, if available:

  • 1994: Emil Heuser , Leverkusen, Pat Munday , Butte Montana.
  • 1995: William H. Brock , Leicester University, Mark Russell Finlay , Armstrong State College, Savannah Georgia.
  • 1996: Regine Zott , Berlin, Frederic L. Holmes , Yale University
  • 1997: Ursula Schling-Brodersen , Schriesheim / Mannheim, for her dissertation Liebig and the agricultural experimental stations and Elisabeth Vaupel from the Deutsches Museum, Munich, for her chemical-historical work on Liebig's glass silver plating and her contributions to Friedrich Wöhler and Sainte-Claire Deville .
  • 1998: Ulrike Thomas , Mutterstadt, for her dissertation Pharmacy in the field of tension of reorientation: Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785-1836), Life, Work and Work - A Biography , and posthumously to the Liebig researcher Carlo Paoloni , Milan.
  • 1999: Johannes Büttner , Isernhagen, for his research on the history of clinical chemistry, especially in connection with Justus von Liebig and his student of Joseph von Scherer , and to Viktor A. Kritsman , Deutsches Museum Munich, for his research on the history of Russian chemists of the 19th century and the influence of Justus von Liebig on his Russian students ( Liebig, the great-grandfather of Russian chemists ).
  • 2000: Martin Kirschke , Meine, for his chemical-historical work on Liebig's teacher Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner , and to Walter Botsch , Schwäbisch Gmünd, for his research on the concept of life force in Justus von Liebig.
  • 2001: Robin Keen , England, for his first English biography of Friedrich Wöhler, and to Otto Krätz , Starnberg, for his numerous chemical-historical publications and his historical, chemical experimental lectures.
  • 2002: Alan J. Rocke , USA for his profound knowledge of the sources of the German chemists around Liebig, as well as for his novel chemical-historical methodology, which includes experimental investigations into the construction and properties of historical instruments, and in this way Liebig's elemental analysis in a new light lets appear .
  • 2003: Stefan Ross , Essen, for the publication of the excellently commented source edition on the history of university chemistry and chemical technology of the 19th century with the title Carl Schmidt (1822-1894). Diary entries, letters and scientific travel reports of the Dorpater chemist Carl Schmidt from the years 1842-1881 .
  • 2004: Mel C. Usselman , Canada, for contributions to chemical history and Liebig research
  • 2005: Susanne Poth , Wiesbaden, for her research on the Liebig student Carl Remigius Fresenius .
  • 2006: Christine Stock , Mainaschaff, for her dissertation Robert Wilhelm Bunsen's correspondence before taking up the Heidelberg professorship (1852) - Critical Edition .
  • 2007: Jochen Haas , for his dissertation Vigantol - Adolf Windaus and the history of Vitamin D .
  • 2008: Günther Beer , Göttingen, for his scientific work on the history of chemistry.
  • 2009: Christoph Meinel , Regensburg, for his chemical history work on Liebig and Wöhler.
  • 2010: Horst Remane , Leipzig, for his contributions to the history of chemistry.
  • 2012: Petra Renate Stumm , Lobbach, for her work on the life and work of the Heidelberg chemist Leopold Gmelin .
  • 2013: Neill Busse , Herborn, for his dissertation The chemical elite. Justus Liebig's network and his students .
  • 2014: Catherine Jackson , University of Wisconsin, Madison, for contributions to the history of organic chemistry, especially Synthetical Experiments and Alkaloid Analogues: Liebig, Hofmann and the origins of organic synthesis (Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Volume 44, 2012, pp. 319-363).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award to Catherine Jackson. In: wisc.edu. University of Wisconsin - Madison, October 28, 2014, accessed July 4, 2019 (American English).