Gmelin-Beilstein commemorative coin

Commemorative coin (Gmelin-Beilstein), which is awarded by the GDCh as a special award in the field of the history of chemistry and chemistry literature.

The Gmelin-Beilstein-Gedenkmünze is a prize of the Society of German Chemists for people who have made a contribution to the history of chemistry, chemistry literature or chemistry information. It is associated with a silver medal and 7,500 euros in prize money and was first awarded in 1954 and donated by Hoechst . It is named after Leopold Gmelin and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein , who were known for their manuals.

Award winners

• 1954 Paul Walden , Maximilian Pflücke
• 1956 Friedrich Richter
• 1958 Wilhelm Foerst
• 1962 Erich Pietsch
• 1965 Jean Baptiste Gillis
• 1966 Eduard Kreuzhage
• 1973 Werner Schultheis
• 1976 Hans Rudolf Christen
• 1977 Günter Kresze
• 1980 Margot Becke-Goehring
• 1981 Fred A. Tate
• 1983 Robert Fugmann , Ernst Meyer
• 1987 Jürgen Schaafhausen
• 1988 Gerd M. Ahrenholz
• 1990 Christian Weiske
• 1991 Johann Gasteiger
• 1995 Christoph Meinel
• 2000 Peter Gölitz
• 2002 Ursula Schoch-Grübler
• 2005 Ute Deichmann
• 2007 Olga Kennard
• 2010 Jürgen Gmehling
• 2012 Engelbert Zaß
• 2014 Henning Hopf
• 2016 Joe P. Richmond
• 2018 René Deplanque
• 2020 Guillermo Restrepo

Web links

• official website

1. ↑ Jana Gregor: Gmelin-Beilstein memorial coin of the Society of German Chemists goes to Guillermo Restrepo. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (MPIMIS), press release from February 27, 2020 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on February 28, 2020.