In honor of Rudolf Hoppe, since 2016 the Division has usually given this named lecture every two years to personalities who have made outstanding scientific achievements in the field of solid state chemistry and materials research. The award comes with a certificate of award, prize money of 1,000 euros donated by the Division and an invitation to give four lectures. The first of these lectures usually takes place directly after the award ceremony at the Division conference .
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hoppe (1922-2014; obituary ) shaped solid state chemistry like no other through his enormous scientific breadth and his striving for a deep understanding of inorganic structural chemistry based on electrostatic models.
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On the occasion of the GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry on September 18, 2024 in Munich, the Division of Solid-State Chemistry & Materials Research awarded the Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship to Professor Dr. Holger Kohlmann (University of Leipzig) in recognition of his outstanding work on inorganic hydrides:
"His original work has developed a broad structural chemistry and is relevant far beyond basic research in times when chemical hydrogen storage is being widely discussed for the transformation of our energy infrastructure. He represents this field for solid-state chemistry in Germany like no other."
The self-chosen title of the Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship 2024 is:
“Metal Hydrides – (Extra)Ordinary Solids”
On the occasion of the 21st Conference on Inorganic Chemistry on September 27, 2022 in Marburg, the Division of Solid-State Chemistry & Materials Research awarded the Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship to Professor Thomas Fässler (Technical University of Munich) in recognition of his outstanding work on lithium-ion conductors.
"His excellent interdisciplinary contributions in the field of solid-state and materials research are being honored. His scientific work is impressive due to its inventiveness, the wide range of accomplished synthetic work and clearly communicated structure-property relationships. Furthermore, Professor Fässler's scientific lectures are able to inspire a wide audience and are therefore entirely in keeping with the spirit of the prize being awarded."
The Rudolf Hoppe Lecture 2018 was awarded at the Division conference in Regensburg. awardee Dr. Mathias Wickleder from the University of Cologne.
"Mathias Wickleder is one of the most important and influential German-speaking solid-state chemists of the last decade. His work, especially on compounds with various oxoanions, also received great attention worldwide. But Mathias Wickleder is above all a preparative chemist who, through creative ideas, created access to compounds whose existence years ago would have been considered impossible. Everyone who has heard one of his lectures can confirm his special ability to convey these results to an interested scientific and non-scientific audience."
The Rudolf-Hoppe Lectureship was awarded for the first time at the Division conference in Innsbruck. The newly created lecture is intended to illustrate the importance of inorganic solid-state chemistry as an important foundation for all materials development. The awardee is Professor Tom Nilges (TU Munich).
"Mr. Nilges' work is characterized by a wide chemical range and makes substantial contributions to various areas of solid-state and materials chemistry. His investigations into the allotropes of phosphorus are already part of new textbooks on inorganic chemistry and his findings on the chemical modifiability of thermoelectric materials have received considerable international attention. Mr. Nilges' enthusiasm for his research is palpable in his lively lectures, so that the Division that it has awardee to convey the great importance of solid-state and materials chemistry."
| year of award | place of the award ceremony | awardee | affiliation at the time of award |
| 2024 | Munich | Prof. Dr. Holger Kohlmann | University of Leipzig |
| 2022 | Marburg | Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler | Technical University of Munich |
| 2020 | No award (Corona) | ||
| 2018 | regensburg | Prof. Dr. Mathias Wickleder | University of Cologne |
| 2016 | Innsbruck, Austria | Prof. Dr. Tom Nilges | Technical University of Munich |
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