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.
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1940 | Clemens Schöpf, Darmstadt |
| 1938 | Kurt Adler, Cologne |
| 1937 | Gerhard Domagk, Wuppertal-Elberfeld |
| 1935 | Adolf Butenandt, Gdansk |
| 1934 | Hans Mauß, Wuppertal-Elberfeld |
| 1933 | Fritz Kögl, Utrecht/Netherlands |
| 1931 | Felix Ehrlich, Wroclaw |
| 1930 | Kurt H. Meyer, Ludwigshafen |
| 1928 | Fritz Schönhöfer, Wuppertal-Elberfeld |
| 1927 | Franz Fischer, Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| 1922 | Carl Neuberg, Berlin |
| 1919 | Otto Hahn, Berlin |
| 1912 | Fritz Hofmann, Wroclaw |
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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