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Emil Fischer Medal

  • Subject: organic chemistry
  • Consists of: 7,500 euros, gold medal, certificate
  • First awarded: 1912
  • Awarded in: Even years

The GDCh awards the Emil Fischer Medal for outstanding performance in the field of organic chemistry. The award was donated by Carl Duisberg in 1912 on the occasion of Emil Fischer's 60th birthday and was initially financed by the Carl Duisberg Foundation and later from a special fund of the GDCh. Emil Fischer was one of the most important chemists of his time and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 for his sugar and purine work.

Current awardee: Frank Glorius, University of Münster

Professor Frank Glorius is awarded the Emil Fischer Medal in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes as ligands in catalysis, as organocatalysts or for the modification of surfaces, to the stereoselective hydrogenation of aromatics, to CH activation and photocatalysis, to the development of novel screening methods and, most recently, to the use of machine learning in organic chemistry.

More information about Professor Glorius

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Distinguished persons since 1912

Selection committee

Prof. Dr. Bart Jan Ravoo, University of Münster (lead)
Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann, Georg August University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Anke Krüger, University of Stuttgart
Dr. Carl Friedrich Nising, Bayer AG
Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

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