Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize
The Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize for Analytics is a science prize endowed with 15,000 euros that is awarded for the development and application of new methods in chemical analysis that can help improve living conditions.
The award is named after Heinrich Emanuel Merck , the founder of the Merck company , and has been awarded by Merck KGaA since 1988. The occasion of the first award was the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first standard analytical work The Testing of Chemical Reagents for Purity by Carl Krauch .
The award has been held since 1990 at the European Conference on Analytical Chemistry (EUROANALYSIS).
The award is given to scientists up to the age of 45 years.
Award winners
- 1988 Masataka Hiraide (University of Nagoya / Japan) and Otto S. Wolfbeis (University of Graz / Austria)
- 1990 Brian A. Bidlingmeyer (Millipore Corporation / USA) and Reinhard Nießner (Technical University of Munich / Germany)
- 1993 Aviv Amirav (Tel Aviv University / Israel)
- 1996 D. Jed Harrison (University of Alberta / Canada) and Andreas Manz (Imperial College London / Great Britain)
- 1998 Renato Zenobi (ETH Zurich / Switzerland)
- 2000 Norman J. Dovich (University of Alberta / Canada)
- 2002 Jonathan V. Sweedler (University of Illinois / USA)
- 2004 Yoshinobu Baba (Tokushima University / Japan)
- 2007 Alexander A. Makarov (Thermo Electron / Germany) and Shuming Nie (Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology / USA)
- 2010 Luisa Torsi (University of Bari / Italy)
- 2012 Aaron Wheeler (University of Toronto / Canada)
- 2015 Petra S. Dittrich (ETH Zurich / Switzerland)
- 2017 Francesco Ricci (University of Tor Vergata / Italy)
- 2019 David Alsteens (Université catholique de Louvain / Belgium)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ S. Müller: Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize for Analytics. Merck KGaA press release of March 28, 2007.
- ^ Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize for Analytics. (PDF; 119 kB) p. 39.