Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture
The Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture is an award given by the Photochemistry Section of the Society of German Chemists together with the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry “for outstanding work in the field of photochemistry”. The prize is advertised every two years and commemorates the physical chemist Theodor Förster (1910–1974).
Award winners
- 1975: George Porter , London
- 1987: Albert Weller , Göttingen
- 1989: Zbigniew R. Grabowski , Warsaw
- 1991: Fritz P. Schäfer , Göttingen
- 1993: Jan W. Verhoeven , Amsterdam
- 1995: Waldemar Adam , Würzburg
- 1997: Dietmar Möbius , Göttingen
- 1999: Frans De Schryver , University of Leuven
- 2001: Kurt Schaffner , Max Planck Institute, Mülheim
- 2003: Jakob Wirz , University of Basel
- 2005: Nicholas J. Turro , Columbia University, New York
- 2007: Gion Calzaferri , University of Bern
- 2008: Masahiro Irie , University, Tokyo
- 2010: Miguel A. Miranda , Universidad Politecnica Valencia
- 2012: Tito Scaiano , University of Ottawa
- 2014: Ben L. Feringa , University of Groningen
- 2016: Douglas C. Neckers , Perrysburg, Ohio
- 2018: Michael Grätzel , EPF Lausanne
- 2020: no lecture
Web links
- Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture at the Society of German Chemists (gdch.de)
- Theodor Förster memorial lecture at the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (bunsen.de)