Paul Karrer Lecture

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The Paul Karrer Lecture and the Paul Karrer Gold Medal are honored by the University of Zurich for outstanding achievements in chemistry . It has been awarded annually or every two years since 1959 and is named after the Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zurich and Nobel Prize winner Paul Karrer , who retired in 1959. The award is carried by a foundation that was then supported by the companies Ciba AG , JR Geigy , F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. AG , Sandoz AG , Société des Produits Nestlé AG and Dr. A. Wander AG was founded.

The award winner holds a lecture at the University of Zurich and receives the medal. A portrait of Karrer, created by the sculptor Hermann Hubacher, is emblazoned on the medal .

Up to 2017 there were 13 Nobel Prize winners among the speakers (Tiselius, Todd, Ochoa, Theorell, Wald, Wittig, Corey, Zewail, Yonath, Suzuki, Hell, Prelog, Grubbs). Of these, 7 received the Karrer Medal before the Nobel Prize and one (Grubbs) in the same year.

Award winners

With the title of the lecture (and for some the place of publication of the lecture).

  • 1959: Arthur Stoll , From the chemistry of natural substances (Experientia 1960, 16, 85–100)
  • 1960: Clemens Schöpf , The Constitution of the Salamander Alkaloids (Experientia 1961, 17, 285–295)
  • 1961: Arne Tiselius , Some new separation methods and their application to biochemical and organic-chemical problems (Experientia 1961, 17, 433–443)
  • 1962: Alexander Robertus Todd , Die dyes der aphid (Experientia 1962, 18, 433–438)
  • 1963: Severo Ochoa , Chemical Basis of Heredity - the Genetic Code (Experientia 1964, 20, 57-68)
  • 1964: Edgar Lederer , On the origin and function of some methyl groups in branched fatty acids, in plant sterols and in quinones of the vitamin K and ubiquinone groups (Experientia 1964, 20, 473–487)
  • 1965: Hugo Theorell , The alcohol dehydrogenases - their modes of action and complex compounds (Experientia 1965, 21, 553-561)
  • 1966: Gerold Schwarzenbach , The Development of the Valence Theory and Alfred Werner (Experientia 1966, 22, 633–646)
  • 1967: George Wald , The Molecular Basis of Visual Excitation
  • 1968: Kurt Mothes , The alkaloids in the metabolism of plants (Experientia 1969, 25, 225–239)
  • 1969: Robert Schwyzer , Programmed Molecules (Experientia 1970, 26, 577-587)
  • 1970: Adolfo Quilico , Advances in Nitrile Oxides Chemistry (Experientia 1970, 26, 1169–1183)
  • 1971: Bernhard Witkop , New Goals in Natural Product Chemistry. The organic chemist as pioneer of biochemistry and medicine (New Directions in the Chemistry of natural Products: The Organic Chemist as a Pathfinder for Biochemistry and Medicine; Experientia 1971, 27, 1121–1138)
  • 1972: Georg Wittig , Bizarre about hydrocarbons on my way from the diylenes to the ylids (Eccentricities of Hydrocarbons on my Way from the Diyls to the Ylids; Experientia 1972, 28, 1265–1276)
  • 1973: Egbertus Havinga , Vitamine D, Example and Challenge (Experientia 1973, 29, 1181–1193)
  • 1974: Vladimir Prelog , Chirality as the Basis of Stereochemistry
  • 1976: Otto Isler , Fettlösliche Vitamins und Carotenoids (Progress in the field of fat-soluble vitamins and carotinoids; Experientia 1977, 33, 555-573)
  • 1977: Alan R. Battersby , The Discovery of Nature's Biosynthetic Pathways (Experientia 1978, 34, 1-3)
  • 1979: Hans Kuhn , Physico-chemical models as approaches to the question of the origin of living systems
  • 1982: Elias J. Corey , Slow Reacting Substances, Leukotrienes, and Other Eicosanoids
  • 1984: Jack E. Baldwin , Stereochemical and Mechanistic Studies on Some Enzymatic Reactions
  • 1986: Koji Nakanishi , Studies with Retinal Proteins: Difference FTIR etc.
  • 1989: Duilio Arigoni , On the biogenesis of natural substances
  • 1992: Hans Paulsen , Synthesis of Glycoprotein Segments for the Study of the Specificity of the Biosynthesis of Glycoproteins
  • 1994: Stuart L. Schreiber , A Chemical Approach to Understanding and Controlling Signal Transduction
  • 1996: Jacqueline K. Barton , The Chemistry of DNA: Probing Recognition and Reaction with Transition Metal Complexes
  • 1998: Ahmed H. Zewail , Chemistry and Biology in the Femtosecond Age
  • 2000: Kyriacos C. Nicolaou , Chemistry, Biology and Medicine of Natural and Designed Molecules
  • 2002: Dieter Oesterhelt , The biological functions of the vitamin A family
  • 2004: Ada Yonath , The Spectacular Ribosomal Architecture: Linking Positional Catalysis to Antibody Synergism
  • 2005: Robert H. Grubbs , Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • 2007: Steven V. Ley , The medal was given in recognition of Professor Ley's contributions to chemical synthesis as related to natural and biologically active molecules.
  • 2008: Albert Eschenmoser , questioning natural product structures
  • 2009: Akira Suzuki , Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds
  • 2011: Michael Graetzel , Molecular Photovoltaics and Mesoscopic Solar Cells
  • 2013: Stefan W. Hell , Nanoscopy with focused light
  • 2015: Paul Knochel , Polyfunctional Organometallics in Organic Synthesis
  • 2017: Herbert Waldmann , How natural products can inspire chemical biology and the medicinal industry
  • 2019: Makoto Fujita , Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances

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