The GDCh awards the August Wilhelm Hofmann Commemorative Medal for special services in chemistry to foreign chemists or to German personalities who are not chemists but have achieved great things for chemistry. The prize has a long tradition and was established in 1902 by the predecessor society, the German Chemical Society. The Society honoured AW v. Hofmann (1818-1892) by issusing the Medal in his honour. He was the founder and longtime President of the German Chemical Society and had previously worked successfully in England for 20 years. There, in Britian, he was President of the Chemical Society.
Professor Dr. David A. Leigh, University of Manchester, UK, is the awardee of the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Memorial Medal 2024. The GDCh recognizes Leigh's pioneering achievements in the field of nanoscience, including the development of artificial molecular machines and molecular knots and the introduction of innovative concepts for controlling molecular motion.
| 2024 | David A. Leigh, University of Manchester, UK |
| 2022 |
Paul T. Anastas, Yale University, New Haven/USA John C. Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington/USA |
| 2020 | Omar Yaghi, Berkeley CA/USA |
| 2018 | Michael Grätzel, Lausanne/Switzerland |
| 2016 | Ben Feringa, Groningen/Netherlands |
| 2014 | Barry Trost, Stanford/USA |
| 2012 |
Sason Shaik, Jerusalem/Israel Martin Quack, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2010 | Chintamani NR Rao, Bangalore/India |
| 2008 | Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, La Lolla/USA |
| 2006 | François Diederich, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2005 |
Robert H. Grubbs, Pasadena/USA Richard R. Schrock, Cambridge/USA |
| 2003 | Dieter Seebach, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2001 | Steven V. Ley, Cambridge/UK |
| 1999 | Lord Jack Lewis of Newnham, Cambridge/UK |
| 1997 | Charles Weissman, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1995 | Joshua Jortner, Tel Aviv/Israel |
| 1992 | Sir Alan R. Battersby, Cambridge/UK |
| 1991 | Henri B. Kagan, Sorbonne/France |
| 1988 | Jack Halpern, Chicago/USA |
| 1985 | George C. Pimentel, Berkeley/USA |
| 1983 | David Ginsburg, Haifa/Israel |
| 1981 | Tetsuo Nozoe, Sendai/Japan |
| 1978 | Paul Hagenmüller, Boreaux/France |
| 1976 | Albert Eschenmoser, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1974 | Edgar Heilbronner, Basel/Switzerland |
| 1970 | Costin D. Nenitzescu, Bucharest/Romania |
| 1967 |
Viktor N. Kondratiev, Moscow/Russia Sir Lawrence Bragg, London/UK Vladimir Prelog, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1964 | Edgar Lederer. Gif-sur-Yvette/France |
| 1962 |
Paul D. Bartlett, Cambridge/USA William von Eggers-Doering, New Haven/USA |
| 1957 | Sir Robert Robinson, Oxford/UK |
| 1955 | Arne WK Tiselius, Uppsala/Sweden |
| 1953 |
Roger Adams, Urbana/USA Emilio Segré, Berkeley/USA |
| 1942 |
Adolf Butenandt, Berlin Paul Walden, Rostock |
| 1941 |
Gustav Komppa, Helsinki/Finland Hermann Rein, Göttingen |
| 1940 |
Max Samec, Ljubljana/Slovenia Géza Zemplén, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1939 | Albert Szent-Györgyi, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1938 |
Giovanni Battista Bonino, Bologna/Italy Pierre Jolibois, Paris/France |
| 1937 | Franz Fischer, Mühlheim am Ruhr |
| 1936 | Max Bodenstein, Berlin |
| 1927 | Franz Oppenheim, Berlin |
| 1924 | Bernhard Lepsius, Berlin |
| 1921 | Carl Duisberg, Leverkusen |
| 1906 | Sir William Henry Perkin, London/UK |
| 1903 |
Henri Moissan, Paris/France Sir William Ramsay, London/UK |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich (lead)
Prof. Dr. Detlev Belder, University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Ruth Maria Gschwind, University of Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus, Free University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus Liebig University Gießen
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