Chemistry Prize from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

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The Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen has been awarded by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 1957 for outstanding work in chemistry. There are also corresponding prizes for physics and biology.

As a rule, the researchers should work in Germany or be German citizens, they must not be over the age of 40 and not yet hold a professorship for life or a corresponding other position. In addition, they must work outside of Göttingen and are not allowed to be students of members of the Göttingen Academy. The candidates are proposed by the respective Academy Award Committees.

Award winners

Partly with laudatory speech.

  • 1957 Ernst Otto Fischer (TH Munich)
  • 1958 Ferdinand Bohlmann (TH Braunschweig)
  • 1959 Wolfgang Lüttke (University of Freiburg)
  • 1960 Max Schmidt (chemist) (University of Munich)
  • 1961 Hans Musso (University of Marburg)
  • 1962 Hans Ludwig Schläfer (University of Frankfurt)
  • 1963 Rudolf Hoppe (University of Münster)
  • 1964 Ivar Ugi (Bayer)
  • 1965 Heinrich Matthaei (Medical Research Institute, MPG Göttingen)
  • Not awarded in 1966
  • 1967 Wolfgang Beck (TH Munich)
  • 1968 Gerhard Schröder (University of Karlsruhe)
  • 1969 Hans Bock (University of Munich)
  • 1970 Dietrich Menzel (TH Munich)
  • 1971 Eckhart Schweizer (University of Würzburg)
  • 1972 Arndt Simon (University of Münster)
  • 1973 Harald Günther (University of Cologne) and (replacement for Physics Prize) Gerhard Herberich (RWTH Aachen University)
  • 1974 Markus Schwoerer (University of Stuttgart)
  • 1975 Henning Hopf (University of Karlsruhe)
  • 1976 Konrad Seppelt (University of Heidelberg)
  • 1977 Gerhard Sauthoff (MPI Iron Research Düsseldorf)
  • 1978 Manfred T. Reetz (University of Bonn)
  • 1979 Wolfgang A. Herrmann (University of Regensburg)
  • 1980 Eberhard Neumann (MPI Biochemistry Martinsried)
  • 1981 Günter Helmchen (University of Würzburg)
  • 1982 Michael Veith (TU Braunschweig)
  • 1983 Hans Jürgen Neusser (Technical University of Munich)
  • 1984 Dieter Cremer (University of Cologne)
  • 1985 Gerhard Erker (MPI Coal Research Mülheim)
  • 1986 John P. Maier (University of Basel)
  • 1987 Franz P. Schmidtchen (Technical University of Munich)
  • 1988 Klaus Rademann (University of Marburg)
  • 1989 Reinhard Nesper (MPI Solid State Research Stuttgart)
  • 1990 Reinhard Brückner (University of Marburg)
  • 1991 Joachim Sauer (Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Berlin-Adlershof)
  • 1992 Wolfgang Schnick (University of Bonn)
  • 1993 Carsten Bolm (University of Marburg)
  • 1994 Eckart Rühl (FU Berlin)
  • 1995 Albrecht Berkessel (University of Wisconsin)
  • 1996 Matthias Drieß (University of Heidelberg)
  • 1997 Jürgen Rühe (MPI for Polymer Research Mainz)
  • 1998 Thisbe Lindhorst (Hamburg)
  • 1999 Lutz H. Gade (University of Strasbourg) his work on metal complexes on multifunctional amido ligands and their redox behavior.
  • 2000 David Luckhaus (ETH Zurich) for his work on spectroscopic and quantum theoretical investigations of the inner molecular dynamics, especially of nitrogen-hydrogen-oxygen compounds.
  • 2001 Christian Limberg (University of Heidelberg) for his work on oxo-transfer reactions on chromium and molybdenum compounds .
  • 2002 Lukas J. Goossen (MPI Kohlenforschung Mülheim) for the work: Palladium-catalyzed syntheses of aryl ketones from carboxylic acids and boronic acids , palladium-catalyzed silylations of aromatics and investigations into waste-free Heck reactions .
  • 2003 Otto Dopfer (University of Würzburg) for development work in the field of infrared dissociation spectroscopy as well as spectroscopic and quantum chemical characterization of important molecular ions and ion complexes, in particular of intermediate stages in electrophilic aromatic substitution.
  • 2004 Ingo Krossing (Freiburg) for development work in the field of compounds with weakly coordinating anions.
  • 2005 Georg Pohnert (Lausanne) for investigations in the field of biomolecular chemistry, in particular the elucidation of the chemical defense strategies of marine algae
  • 2006 Jörg Tiller (University of Freiburg) for the production of a new generation of contactive antimicrobial surfaces and for the formation of structures in amphiphilic con-networks.
  • 2007 Kay Severin (EPFL Lausanne) for important work in the field of organometallic synthesis and catalysis.
  • 2008 Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt) for pioneering work on enantioselective biomimetic hydrogenation and the use of chiral Brønsted acids in the synthesis of heterocycles and carbocycles as well as direct CC bond formation with CH functionalization
  • 2009 Philip Tinnefeld (Munich) for fundamental work on the further development of optical single molecule spectroscopy and its application to biomolecular interactions.
  • 2010 Sven Schneider (Munich) for creative work on new catalyst systems that use the interaction of metal and ligand.
  • 2011 Jörg S. Hartig (Konstanz) for groundbreaking and trend-setting work on the chemical biology of nucleic acids and especially RNA.
  • 2012 Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zurich) for the groundbreaking observation of the time-dependent quantum dynamics of electrons on the subfemtosecond scale
  • 2013 Manuel Alcarazo Velasco (MPI Kohlenforschung Mülheim) for synthesis of new ligand systems and application in asymmetric homogeneous catalysis
  • 2014 Tanja Gaich (Hanover) for outstanding achievements in the total synthesis of complex natural products.
  • 2015 Melanie Schnell (Hamburg) for groundbreaking new methods for the investigation of rotational spectra of state-selected molecules under extremely cold conditions
  • 2016 Shigeyoshi Inoue (TU Munich) for contributions to the chemistry of low-valent compounds of main elements, especially silicon.
  • 2017 Bill Morandi (MPI Kohlenforschung Mülheim), contributions to reversible transfer catalysis
  • 2019 Tobias Beck

Individual evidence

  1. Events winter semester 2019/2020. (PDF; 8 MB) In: adw-goe.de. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, October 10, 2019, p. 8 , accessed on October 16, 2019 .

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