Current call for proposals for the Paul Bunge Prize 2026: German, English.
Nomination and application deadline: September 30, 2025.
Nomination and application form
Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1996), a chemist at Schott Glassworks in Mainz, became known for his contributions to the history of scientific instruments, especially historical analytical balances. Paul Bunge (1839-1888), a precision mechanic and engineer, set new standards in scale construction.
The Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation, established in 1992, is awarded jointly by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the German Bunsen Society for physical chemistry (DBG) for work on the history of scientific instruments. The award is presented annually, alternating between DBG general meetings and conferences of the GDCh Division of History of Chemistry. The prize is publicly and internationally advertised. Anyone is eligible to submit nominations. Self-nominations are also permitted.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Paul Bunge Prize, the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation has invited all previous awardee to reflect together on the topic of “Writing the History of Scientific Instruments: State of the Art and Future Perspectives” in 2023.
A brief history of the foundation and the prize as well as the program of the anniversary conference can be downloaded here:
Charlotte Bigg & Christoph Meinel (eds.), Paul Bunge Prize: History of Scientific Instruments, 1993-2023 (Frankfurt/Main: GDCh, 2023), 96 pp.
| 1993 | Klaus Hentschel, Göttingen Mara Miniati, Florence/Italy |
| 1994 | Matthias Dörries, Munich Heinz Otto Sibum, Cambridge/England |
| 1995 | Gerard L'Estrange Turner, Oxford/England |
| 1996 | David A. King, Frankfurt/Main Stuart M. Feffer, Aberdeen/USA |
| 1997 | Silvio A. Bedini, Washington DC/USA |
| 1998 | Robert Bud, London/England Deborah Jean Warner, Washington DC/USA |
| 1999 | Nicolas Rasmussen, Sydney/Australia |
| 2000 | Alan Q. Morton, London/England Richard J. Sorrenson, Bloomington/USA |
| 2001 | Jim Bennett, Oxford/England |
| 2002 | Paolo Brenni, Mendrisio/Switzerland and Florence/Italy |
| 2003 | Jean F. Johnston, Dumfries/Great Britain |
| 2004 | Jobst Broelmann, Munich Carsten Reinhardt, Regensburg |
| 2005 | Myles W. Jackson, Salem, OR/USA |
| 2006 | Inge Keil, Augsburg Davis Baird, Columbia, SC/USA |
| 2007 | Charlotte Bigg, Berlin |
| 2008 | Alison Morrison-Low, Edinburgh/Great Britain |
| 2009 | Jutta Schickore, Bloomington, Indiana/USA |
| 2010 | Henning Schmidgen, Berlin |
| 2011 | Matteo Valleriani, Berlin |
| 2012 | David Pantalony, Ottawa/Canada |
| 2013 | Marco Beretta, Bologna/Italy |
| 2014 | Cyrus Mody, Houston/USA |
| 2015 | Brian Gee, Leicester/UK (posthumous, † 2009) |
| 2016 | Robert Anderson, Cambridge/UK |
| 2017 | Simon Schaffer, Cambridge/UK |
| 2018 | Anthony Turner, Le Mesnil le Roi/F |
| 2019 | Sara Schechner, Harvard, Cambridge/USA |
| 2020 | Simon Werrett, London/UK |
| 2021 | Liba Taub, Cambridge/UK |
| 2022 | Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University, New York/USA |
| 2023 | Robert W. Smith, University of Alberta, Edmonton/Canada |
| 2024 | Rebekah Higgitt, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh/UK Peter Heering, University of Flensburg |
| 2025 | Paloa Bertucci, Yale University, New Haven/USA |
Dr. Charlotte Bigg, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris (Chair)
Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum Munich
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus Liebig University Gießen (Board Member of the GDCh)
Prof. Dr. Robert Franke, Evonik Oxeno GmbH & Co. KG (Chair of the DBG)
GDCh
Dr. Ralph Wieneke
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+49 69 7917 311
r.wieneke@gdch.de
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