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.

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Distinguished persons since 1912

2024	Frank Glorius, University of Münster
2022	Peter Bäuerle, University of Ulm
2020	Peter H. Seeberger, Potsdam
2018	Thorsten Bach, Munich
2016	Dirk Trauner, Munich
2014	Matthias Beller, Rostock
2012	Herbert Waldmann, Dortmund
2010	Johann Mulzer, Vienna
2008	Peter Hofmann, Heidelberg
2006	Bernd Giese, Basel/Switzerland
2004	Lutz Friedjan Tietze, Göttingen
2002	Dieter Enders, Aachen
2000	Horst Kunz, Mainz
1997	Horst Kessler, Munich
1995	Richard R. Schmidt, Konstanz
1992	Ivar Ugi, Munich
1990	Ekkehard Winterfeldt, Hanover
1988	Rolf Geiger, Frankfurt a. M.
1986	Wolfgang Steglich, Bonn
1984	Gerhard Quinkert, Frankfurt a. M.
1982	Hermann Stetter, Aachen
1980	Hans Paulsen, Hamburg
1978	Hans Musso, Karlsruhe
1975	Emanuel Vogel, Cologne
1970	Günther Wilke, Mülheim an der Ruhr
1969	Theodor Wieland, Heidelberg
1967	Arthur Lüttringhaus, Freiburg
1966	Hellmut Bredereck, Stuttgart
1962	Otto Westphal, Freiburg
1961	Hans Herloff Inhoffen, Braunschweig Friedrich Weygand, Munich
1960	Rudolf Criegee, Karlsruhe
1958	Walter Koenig, Dresden
1955	Hans-Heinrich Schlubach, Hamburg
1954	Hans Brockmann, Göttingen
1952	Karl Freudenberg, Heidelberg
1951	Burckhardt Helferich, Bonn
1950	Hans Meerwein, Marburg

awardee of the Carl Duisberg Foundation

1940	Clemens Schöpf, Darmstadt
1938	Kurt Adler, Cologne
1937	Gerhard Domagk, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Josef Klarer, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
1935	Adolf Butenandt, Gdansk
1934	Hans Mauß, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Fritz Mietsch, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
1933	Fritz Kögl, Utrecht/Netherlands
1931	Felix Ehrlich, Wroclaw
1930	Kurt H. Meyer, Ludwigshafen Hermann Staudinger, Freiburg
1928	Fritz Schönhöfer, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Werner Schulemann, Wuppertal-Elberfeld August Wingler, Leverkusen
1927	Franz Fischer, Mülheim an der Ruhr Alwin Mittasch, Mannheim
1922	Carl Neuberg, Berlin
1919	Otto Hahn, Berlin
1912	Fritz Hofmann, Wroclaw

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