Richard Kuhn Medal
The Richard Kuhn Medal was named after Richard Johann Kuhn (1900–1967), Nobel Prize winner for chemistry .
This award was donated in 1968 by BASF AG Ludwigshafen am Rhein to the Society of German Chemists (GDCh). Since 1996, the gold medal and a sum of money have been financed from the proceeds of a special fund for awards at the GDCh. The prize was awarded every two years at most to domestic and foreign scientists who have made special contributions in the field of biochemistry . After the award, the award winner should report on his work at a GDCh event in a lecture in memory of Richard Johann Kuhn and accordingly publish an article in the GDCh journal Angewandte Chemie .
In 2005 the board of the GDCh decided not to award the Richard Kuhn Medal any more because of Kuhn's behavior during the Nazi era . However, it has not yet been clarified whether he was a staunch National Socialist or whether he only supported the Nazi regime with administrative, organizational and scientific research in a career-oriented manner. Regardless of Kuhn's professional achievements, he was dismissed as the namesake of this award , primarily because of his unreflected poison gas research and his behavior towards Jewish colleagues.
Award winners
- 1968: Hans Georg Zachau (1930–2017), Munich
- 1970: Kurt Wallenfels (1910–1995), Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1974: Hermann Schildknecht (1922–1996), Heidelberg
- 1978: Helmut Zahn (1916–2004), Aachen
- 1980: Burchard Franck (1926–2017), Münster
- 1984: Lothar Jaenicke (1923–2015), Cologne
- 1987: Robert Huber (* 1937), Martinsried
- 1990: Ernst Bayer (1927–2002), Tübingen
- 1992: Konrad Sandhoff (* 1939), Bonn
- 1995: Ekkehard Winterfeldt (1932–2014), Hanover
- 1998: Wolfgang Steglich (* 1933), Munich
- 2000: Fritz Eckstein (* 1932), Göttingen
- 2002: Alfred Wittinghofer (* 1943), Dortmund
Web links
- Richard Kuhn Medal ( Memento from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanations of the Richard Kuhn Medal on gdch.de ( Memento from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 2, 2011.