Otto-Stern Award of the GDCh Division of Magnetic Resonance

The Division of Magnetic Resonance of the German Chemical Society awarded the Otto-Stern Award 2023 to Prof. Dr. Jean Jeener (1931-2023) on April 15, 2023 in Brussels:

"Professor Jeener invented two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and first formulated the two-pulse experiment which was named COSY by Richard Ernst later on. Together with Richard Ernst, he developed the NOESY and EXSY experiments both theoretically and experimentally. After more than 50 years, polarization transfer via J couplings, as well as transfer via relaxation phenomena and exchange are still cornerstones of NMR spectroscopy for chemical analysis and for life and materials sciences. Professor Jean Jeener's work shaped the NMR spectroscopy that we know today."

The Division of Magnetic Resonance of the German Chemical Society awarded the Otto-Stern Award 2022 to Prof. Dr. Jörg Kärger at the 43rd FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Karlsruhe in September 2022:

" In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the application of pulsed field gradient NMR spectroscopy in the analysis of molecular transport processes in porous materials. Based on NMR investigations of transport processes, Prof. Dr. Kärger has influenced NMR spectroscopy in a wide range and interdisciplinary manner: He has promoted the establishment of fundamental physical models of mass transport at the molecular level. This includes multi-range diffusion, the consideration of adsorption processes, and also the experimental demonstration of one-dimensional diffusion. His work on mass transport and the sorption of complex nanoporous materials has a far-reaching impact on materials and engineering sciences. The knowledge from his work on molecular processes is of great relevance for technical applications such as molecular separation processes and heterogeneous catalysis. His work thus shows in an exemplary manner how magnetic resonance at the highest level, consistently methodically advanced, can serve to solve current challenges, e.g. in the areas of sustainability, climate and energy. "

The first Otto-Stern Award of the Division of Magnetic Resonance was awarded to Prof. Dr. hc mult. Tony Keller (1937-2023):

"In recognition of his fundamental and extraordinary contributions to the development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy - from noise decoupling and the introduction of pulse Fourier spectroscopy in commercial spectrometers to superconducting magnets and fully digitized spectrometers to cryo heads and ultra-high field spectrometers - which opened up broad scientific applications for NMR spectroscopy in Germany and the world and thus made a decisive contribution to the establishment of NMR spectroscopy in chemistry, biosciences and materials science . The Otto-Stern Award 2020 commemorates the discovery of directional quantization into the spin states "up" and "down". Tony Keller has led the development of NMR spectroscopy in the "up" direction."