August Wilhelm von Hofmann Commemorative Medal

Field: Special merits of foreign chemists
Consists of: Gold medal, certificate
First awarded: 1903
Awarded in: Even years

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.

2026 awardee : Roman Gladyshevskii

Professor Dr. Roman Gladyshevskii is the awardee of the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal 2026. The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honors his outstanding contributions to the crystal chemistry of intermetallic and related compounds, as well as his exemplary commitment to science and teaching. Particular emphasis is placed on his work under the extraordinarily difficult conditions of war, his active participation in the European scientific community, his dedication to high-quality education, and his reliable support of Ukrainian students and researchers.

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Award winner interviews

Distinguished individuals since 1903

2026	Roman Gladyshevskii, University of Lviv, Ukraine
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

awardee of the German Chemical Society

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 an der 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

Selection committee

Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich (lead)
Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus, Free University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andrea Rentmeister, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan, University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus Liebig University Gießen