Ernest Guenther Award
The Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products is a scientific award given by the American Chemical Society (ACS) in the field of the chemistry of natural products . It honors outstanding successes in the field of analysis , structure elucidation and synthesis of natural substances - regardless of the age and nationality of the recipient . Independent thinking and originality should be given special consideration. In addition to the prize money of 6,000 US dollars (as of 2011), the winner receives a medal and a certificate.
The prize was donated in 1948 by Fritzsche, Dodge and Olcott Inc. on the occasion of the company's 75th anniversary as the Fritzsche Award in Essential Oils . Since 1969, the prize has been named after its former director Ernest Guenther (* 1895), who wrote numerous works on essential oils . Givaudan has sponsored the award since taking over Fritzsche, Dodge and Olcott in 1990 .
Award winners
Carrier of a Nobel Prize are marked with the year of the award and the specialist in brackets.
- 1949 John L. Simonsen
- 1950 AJ Haagen-Smit
- 1951 Edgar Lederer
- 1952 Yves-René Naves
- 1953 Max Stoll
- 1954 Arthur de Ramon Penfold
- 1955 Hans Schinz
- 1956 Herman Pines
- 1957 Derek HR Barton (1969, chemistry)
- 1958 George Hermann Büchi
- 1959 František Šorm
- 1960 Carl Djerassi
- 1961 Casimir F. Seidel
- 1962 ERH Jones
- 1963 Arthur Birch
- 1964 Oscar Jeger
- 1965 Konrad E. Bloch (1965, medicine)
- 1966 Albert J. Eschenmoser
- 1967 George A. Sim
- 1968 Elias J. Corey (1990, chemistry)
- 1969 John W. Cornforth (1975, chemistry)
- 1970 Duilio Arigoni
- 1971 Ernest Wenkert
- 1972 Guy Ourisson
- 1973 William G. Dauben
- 1974 Günther Ohloff
- 1975 S. Morris Kupchan
- 1976 A. Ian Scott
- 1977 Robert E. Ireland
- 1978 Koji Nakanishi
- 1979 James A. Marshall
- 1980 Sukh Dev
- 1981 Samuel J. Danishefsky
- 1982 Paul A. Grieco
- 1983 Karel Wiesner
- 1984 Jerrold Meinwald
- 1985 David E. Cane
- 1986 Clayton H. Heathcock
- 1987 Wolfgang Oppolzer
- 1988 Paul A. Wender
- 1989 Henry Rapoport
- 1990 Barry M. Trost
- 1991 Charles Dale Poulter
- 1992 Leo A. Paquette
- 1993 Amos B. Smith , III
- 1994 Paul J. Scheuer
- 1995 Jon C. Clardy
- 1996 KC Nicolaou
- 1997 Kenneth L. Rinehart
- 1998 George Robert Pettit
- 1999 Kenji Mori
- 2000 Pierre Potier
- 2001 Yoshito Kishi
- 2002 John W. Daly
- 2003 Steven V. Ley
- 2004 William R. Roush
- 2005 Satoshi Omura (2015, medicine)
- 2006 William H. Fenical
- 2007 Dale L. Boger
- 2008 David GI Kingston
- 2009 Peter Wipf
- 2010 Michael T. Crimmins
- 2011 Robert M. Williams
- 2012 Steve Hanessian
- 2013 Kuniaki Tatsuta
- 2014 Dennis P. Curran
- 2015 Thomas R. Hoye
- 2016 Eric Block
- 2017 Stephen F. Martin
- 2018 David Ransom Williams
- 2019 Iwao Ojima
- 2020 Tadeusz F. Molinski
- 2021 Bradley S. Moore
Web links
- Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products from the American Chemical Society (acs.org); Retrieved June 1, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ unknown: Fritsche Award in Essential Oils Named for Dr. Guenther. In: Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society . 44, 1967, pp. A626-A626, doi: 10.1007 / BF02679666 .
- ^ Entry on Ernest Guenther in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Linda Wang: ACS 2021 national award winners. In: acs.org. American Chemical Society , August 13, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .