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 already established in 1902 by the predecessor company, the German Chemical Society. She remembers with AW v. Hofmann (1818-1892). He was the founder and longtime President of the German Chemical Society and had previously worked successfully in England for 20 years. There, too, he was President of the Chemical Society.
Professors Paul T. Anastas, Yale University, New Haven/USA, and John C. Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington/USA, are being awarded the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal 2022. The GDCh thus honors the awardee as the founders of the concept of green chemistry, for which they not only laid the scientific and intellectual foundations, but also realized concrete implementations.
More than twenty years ago, Paul Anastas and John Warner formulated twelve principles of green chemistry in their book Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. With a visionary view of chemistry, they founded the field of green chemistry, which is indispensable today, and laid the foundation for sustainable chemical product development. In addition, the awardee were committed to the interdisciplinary integration of green chemistry at universities and actively contributed to the realization in their area and at other locations worldwide. For this exemplary commitment to the services of chemistry, Anastas and Warner now receive the August Wilhelm von Hofmann commemorative medal of the GDCh.
| 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 |
| 1942 |
Adolf Butenandt, Berlin Paul Walden, Rostock |
| 1941 |
Gustav Komppa, Helsinki/Finland Hermann Rein, Goettingen |
| 1940 |
Max Samec, Ljubljana/Slovenia Geza Zemplén, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1939 | Albert Szent-Györgyi, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1938 |
Giovanni Battista Bonino, Bologna/Italy Pierre Jolibois, Paris/France |
| 1937 | Franz Fischer, Mühlheim ad 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 |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (lead management)
Prof. Dr. Detlev Belder, University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical physics of Solids, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Ruth Maria Gwind, University of Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Claudia Wickleder, University of Siegen
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