GDCh Awards

GDCh awards

All GDCh awards are highly regarded in the national and international scientific community. The German Chemical Society honors outstanding scientific achievements in the field of chemistry and related sciences.

Updated policies

NEW: Teams can now also be nominated for the GDCh awards and patents are valued equally to publications in journals .

Procurement guidelines

Some GDCh prizes already have a tradition of more than a hundred years, others have only been awarded for a few years. What they all have in common is that they honor outstanding scientific achievements. The GDCh has appointed highly qualified commissions to select the award awardee . The commissions work on the basis of the allocation guidelines of the GDCh. Equal opportunity is also a fundamental part of the decision-making process. The final decision is made by the Board of the GDCh.

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Current calls for applications including the foundation and Division Awards.

GDCh prices

The GDCh awards prizes in all areas of chemistry, from A for analysis to W for science journalism. Prizes that are highly regarded are also awarded in related areas, such as the history of chemistry .

Analytical Chemistry - Fresenius Award
Inorganic chemistry - Marianne Baudler Prize and Wilhelm Klemm Prize
Special merits - August Wilhelm von Hofmann commemorative medal and Liebig commemorative coin
Biochemistry - Albrecht-Kossel Award
Biocatalysis - GDCh Award for Biocatalysis (Prize for Young Talent)
Equal Opportunities - Hildegard Hamm Brücher Prize
Chirality - Horst Pracejus Prize
Didactics of chemistry - Heinz Schmidkunz Prize
history of chemistry, chemistry information and chemical literature - Gmelin-Beilstein commemorative coin
food chemistry - Joseph King Commemorative Coin
Ludic Natural Sciences - Mario Markus Prize
macromolecular chemistry - Hermann Staudinger Award
sustainable chemistry - Wöhler Award for sustainable chemistry
Renewable Resources - Price for bioconversion of renewable raw materials (Prize for Young Talent)
Organic chemistry - Adolf von Baeyer commemorative coin and Emil Fischer Medal
Theoretical Chemistry - Erich Hückel Award
Services to the GDCh - Carl Duisberg Plaque
Young scientists - Carl-Duisberg Memorial Award
Science journalism - GDCh prize for journalism and literature

GDCh awards with other organizations

Some GDCh prizes are awarded in close cooperation with other scientific societies or in cooperation with companies. These prizes are also awarded in various areas of chemistry.

Special Merits - Otto Hahn Award (in cooperation with the City of Frankfurt and DPG)
Supervision of Chinese doctoral students - Award for Excellent Supervisors of Chinese PhD Students (in cooperation with GCCCD)
Chemical Biology - Richard Willstätter Award for Chemical Biology (in cooperation with DECHEMA, DPhG and GBM)
Commitment to humanitarian goals - Primo Levi Prize (in cooperation with Società Chimica Italiana)
university teaching - Ars legendi faculty prize (in cooperation with the Donors' Association for German Science, DMV, DPG and VBIO)
Interdisciplinary research - Wilhelm-Ostwald Young Talent Award (in cooperation with WOG and DBG)
Lithium Chemistry - Arfvedson Schlenk Award (financed by Albemarle Germany GmbH)
Young scientists - Carl-Roth Award (financed by Carl Roth GmbH & Co. KG)