The Bettina Haupt Foundation promotes research in the history of chemistry by awarding the Bettina Haupt-Förderpreis for the history of chemistry to outstanding work by young scientists from German-speaking countries.
The Bettina Haupt Foundation is administered in trust by the GDCh and was founded by Prof. Dr. Heinz Sperlich and his wife Ingeborg to commemorate their daughter Dr. Bettina Haupt, née Sperlich, who herself worked in the field of the history of chemistry .
The Bettina Haupt Foundation is offering the Bettina-Haupt-Förderpreis for the history of chemistry for 2026. The foundation promotes research in the history of chemistry by recognizing outstanding work by young researchers from German-speaking countries. The prize is endowed with EUR 1,500.
Both published and publishable works on any topic in the history of chemistry will be considered, including articles accepted for publication in at least a high-ranking journal . Collaborative works by multiple authors and thematically related individual works may also be considered. Published works should be no more than three years old.
The prize will be awarded at the Division of History of Chemistry conference, which will take place at the University of Lübeck on March 19 and 20, 2026. The awardee winner will have the opportunity to present their research results in a lecture.
Applicants must submit their work in electronic form, along with their CV and list of publications, by September 30, 2025. Theses and dissertations must include the name of the supervising professor. The documents should be sent by email to n.buerger@gdch.de.
Location at the time of the award | |||
| Year | awardee | Location | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Paulina S. Gennermann |
Heidelberg | A story with taste. The nature of synthetic flavorings in the 20th century using the example of vanillin |
| 2024 | Dr. Josephine Musil-Gutsch | Munich | The past under the microscope: Cooperative research practice between the natural sciences and the humanities, 1880–1930 |
| 2022 | Dr. Christopher Halm | regensburg | The early history of agricultural chemistry (1731 – 1813) – chemical appropriation of the soil and the emergence of field laboratories |
| 2021 | - | - | No award (corona pandemic) |
| 2019 | - | - | No award |
| 2017 | - | - | No award |
| 2015 | Justus Vesting | Halle (Saale) | Forced labor in the chemical triangle: prisoners and construction soldiers in the GDR industry more |
| 2013 | Dr. Thomas Steinhauser | Bielefeld | Future machines in chemistry - nuclear magnetic resonance until 1980 more |
| 2011 | Dr. Florian Karl Öxler | Ostfildern | From the portable laboratory to the chemistry kit - more on the history of the chemistry experiment kit with special attention to the German-speaking area |
| 2007 | Henning Schweer | Hamburg | The history of the Stoltzenberg chemical factory up to the end of the Second World War more |
| 2005 | Dr. Dirk Hackenholz | Halle (Saale) | The electrochemical works in Bitterfeld 1914-1945: a location of IG Farbenindustrie AG more |
| PD Dr. Stefan Ross | Eat | for his research and editorial work, which has placed the life's work of the Dorpat Liebig student Carl Schmidt (1822-1894) more clearly in the light of the history of chemistry in the 19th century more - more | |
| 2003 | Christina Renata Grund | Würzburg | The Würzburg chemist Johann Joseph von Scherer and the founding of clinical chemistry in the 19th century more |
| Elena Roussanova | Hamburg | Julia Lermontova (1846-1919) - The first female chemist to receive a doctorate in the 19th century | |
| 2001 | Dr. Martin Kirschke | Mine | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783-1857) - A professorial career in times of scientific upheaval |
| 1999 | Dr. Joachim Stocklöv | Wiesbaden | Arthur Hantzsch: pioneer of physical organic chemistry. Including the correspondence between Arthur Hantzsch and Wilhelm Ostwald from the years 1887-1927 more |
| Dr. Ulrike Fell | Frankfurt am Main | The ideology of chemistry in France from the Second Empire to the interwar period, 2000 more | |
| 1997 | Dr. Bettina Meitzner | Mittweida |
The equipment of chemical art: The treatise “De sceuastica artis” by Andreas Libavius from 1606 more |
| 1995 | Dr. Arne Andersen | Bremen | Historical technology assessment using the example of metal smelting and the chemical industry, 1850 - 1930 more |
| 1993 | Dr. Sabine Ernst | Mainz | Lise Meitner to Otto Hahn - letters from 1912 to 1924 more |
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