The Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize serves to promote young academics in chemistry and is endowed with a total of 7,500 euros. It is awarded to individuals who work at a German university or as a German at a foreign university, who do not yet hold a W2 / W3 in a comparable position and who are not over 40 years of age.
In 1935, the IG Farbenindustrie established the Carl Duisberg Memorial Foundation at the Association of German Chemists to promote the next generation of academics. It was intended to express the close ties between industrial chemist Carl Duisberg and chemical research and teaching. After the Second World War, the foundation was initially not renewed. At the suggestion of the GDCh board of directors, Bayer AG agreed in 1969 to revive the award. Financing is now provided from the proceeds of a special fund for awards at the GDCh.
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honors Prof. Dr. Christoph Kerzig for his groundbreaking work on photochemical energy conversion and two-photon mechanisms in photocatalysis. The catalytic systems he developed enable the efficient conversion of light into chemical energy in aqueous solutions. He has also developed innovative two-photon processes that accumulate the energy of two visible photons, achieving unique reactivity.
Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis, RWTH Aachen University (lead)
Dr. Frank Dissinger, University of Ulm
Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Prof. Dr. Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Ralf Tonner-Zech, University of Leipzig
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