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 .
Location at the time of the award ceremony | |||
| Year | awardee winners | Location | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dr. Simon Große-Wilde | Berlin | Military technology research and testing for the “Third Reich” – The Reich Chemical-Technical Institute from 1900 to 1945 |
| 2024 | Dr. Paulina S. Gennermann |
Heidelberg | A story with flavor. The nature of synthetic flavorings in the 20th century, using vanillin as an example. |
| 2024 | Dr. Josephine Musil-Gutsch | Munich | The Past Under the Microscope: Cooperative Research Practice in the Natural Sciences and 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 given (Corona pandemic) |
| 2019 | - | - | No award |
| 2017 | - | - | No award |
| 2015 | Justus Vesting | Halle (Saale) | Forced labor in the chemical triangle: Convicts and construction soldiers in the industry of the GDR more |
| 2013 | Dr. Thomas Steinhauser | Bielefeld | Future machines in chemistry - Nuclear magnetic resonance by 1980 more |
| 2011 | Dr. Florian Karl Öxler | Ostfildern | From portable laboratory to chemistry set – On the history of the chemistry experiment kit with special consideration of the German-speaking world more |
| 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 site of IG Farbenindustrie AG more |
| PD Dr. Stefan Roß | Eat | for his research and editorial work, which has brought the life's work of Carl Schmidt (1822-1894), a student of Liebig from Dorpat , more clearly into the light of 19th-century chemical history - 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 more | |
| 2001 | Dr. Martin Kirschke | Mine | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783-1857) - A professorial career in times of scientific upheaval more |
| 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 . |
| 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 the years 1912 to 1924 |
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