With the Erich Hückel Award , the GDCh honors outstanding work by scientists in the field of theoretical chemistry. The namesake Erich Hückel is known for the Hückel molecular orbital method he developed, the HMO method. The Hückel rules derived from this for the definition of aromatic and non-aromatic organic molecules are now part of the basic knowledge of all chemistry students.
The GDCh honors Professor Lorenz Cederbaum for his fundamental contributions to the quantum theory of ultrafast electronic and non-adiabatic processes, which opened up new theoretical and experimental research areas, in particular for the discovery of the omnipresent phenomenon of Intermolecular Coulombic Decay (ICD).
| 2024 | Lorenz Cederbaum, University of Heidelberg |
| 2022 | Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, Bonn |
| 2020 | Gernot Frenking, Marburg |
| 2018 | Hans-Joachim Werner, Stuttgart |
| 2016 | Werner Kutzelnigg, Bochum |
Prof. Dr. Leticia González, University of Vienna (lead)
Prof. Dr. Irene Burghardt, Goethe University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kühn, University of Rostock
Prof. Dr. Peter Saalfrank, University of Potsdam
Dr. Ansgar Schäfer, BASF SE
Prof. Dr. Birgit Strodel, Research Center Jülich GmbH
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