GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry

Subject: Inorganic Chemistry
Consists of: 7,500 euros, certificate
First awarded: 1950
Awarded in: Even years

The GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry is awarded to chemists for outstanding scientific work in the field of inorganic chemistry.

At its meeting on March 4, 2022, the GDCh Board of Directors decided to no longer name the prize for inorganic chemistry, which was previously named after the chemist Alfred Stock (1876-1946), after Stock. The Board is thus following a recommendation from the "Prices 2.0" commission, which has dealt extensively with Alfred Stocks on behalf of the Executive Board. The chairman of the Division of History of Chemistry, Prof. Carsten Reinhardt, Univ. Bielefeld, added. With this measure, the Board and Commission emphasize the GDCh's clear stance against anti-Semitism and discrimination as well as a clear commitment to diversity and equal opportunities. A detailed justification can be found in issue 07/08 2022 of the Nachrichten aus der Chemie . A decision on a new name will be made in the near future.

Current award winner: Stefanie Dehnen, Marburg

Professor Stefanie Dehnen received the Alfred-Stock Memorial Award 2020 (today GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry) in recognition of her work in the field of synthesis, structural elucidation and application of innovative heteronuclear cluster and network compounds, which consist of either purely inorganic components or are inorganic - represent organic hybrid compounds. Fundamentally new insights into the structural, electronic and chemical properties of cluster compounds were produced. Innovative syntheses coupled with post-synthetic quantum chemical analyzes are characteristic of this research, through which it shapes modern cluster chemistry internationally.

More information about Professor Dehnen

Distinguished people since 1950

2020	Stefanie Dehnen, Marburg
2018	Christian Limberg, Berlin
2016	Holger Braunschweig, Wuerzburg
2014	Wolfgang Kaim, Stuttgart
2012	Werner Uhl, Munster
2010	Matthias Driess, Berlin
2008	Michael Lappert, Brighton/UK
2006	Karl Otto Christe, Los Angeles CA/USA
2004	Hans Georg Schnöckel, Karlsruhe
2002	Peter Jutzi, Bielefeld
2000	Achim Mueller, Bielefeld
1998	Peter Paetzold, Aachen
1996	Martin Jansen, Bonn
1994	Otto J. Scherer, Kaiserslautern
1992	Gottfried Huttner, Heidelberg
1990	Herbert W. Roesky, Goettingen
1988	Helmut Werner, Wuerzburg
1986	Marianne Baudler, Cologne
1983	Eugene G. Rochow, Captiva/USA
1982	Hubert Schmidbaur, Munich
1981	Hans Georg von Schnering, Stuttgart
1979	Ulrich Wannagat, Brunswick
1976	Heinrich Noeth, Munich
1974	Rudolf Hoppe, Gießen
1972	Max Schmidt, Wuerzburg
1970	Gerhard Fritz, Karlsruhe
1967	Harald Schäfer, Munster
1964	Werner Fischer, Hanover
1963	Friedrich Seel, Saarbrucken
1961	Margot Becke-Goehring, Heidelberg
1959	Ernst Otto Fischer, Munich
1958	Rudolf Scholder, Karlsruhe
1956	Hermann Irving Schlesinger, Chicago/USA
1955	Ulrich Hofmann, Darmstadt
1954	Harry Julius Emeleu, Cambridge/UK
1953	Josef Goubeau, Stuttgart
1952	Robert Schwarz, Aachen
1951	Walter Hieber, Munich
1950	Egon Wiberg, Munich

selection committee

Prof. Dr. Claus Feldmann, KIT Karlsruhe (Leadership Klemm)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg (lead management Stock)
Prof. Dr. Christian Limberg, Humboldt University in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Bettina Valeska Lotsch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Eva Rentschler, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
dr Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, BASF SE