It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2016 SCS awards. We would like to sincerely congratulate all prizewinners and are looking forward to the ceremonies that will take place at one of your events during the next year.
Paracelsus Prize 2016
CHF 20,000 and medal in gold
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The SCS awards Prof. Michael Graetzel, EPF Lausanne, for his invention and development of the dye-sensitized solar cell. The prize if given on the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting in Zürich on September 15, 2016. |
Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered the use of mesoscopic materials in energy conversion systems, in particular photovoltaic cells, lithium ion batteries and photo-electrochemical devices for the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen by sunlight. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nanocrystalline oxide films (Text from http://lpi.epfl.ch/graetzel).
Werner Prize 2016
CHF 10,000 and medal in bronze
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The SCS awards Prof. Maksym Kovalenko, ETH Zurich and EMPA Dübendorf for his innovative studies in the chemistry, physics and applications of inorganic nanostructures. The prize if given on the occasion of the SCS Spring Meeting in Zürich on April 22, 2016. |
Maksym Kovalenko has been an assistant professor (tenure-track) of inorganic functional materials at ETH Zurich since July 2011. He is also affiliated with Empa - the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. The research activities of his group are carried out at both institutions (portrait text from http://www.old-lac.ethz.ch/kovalenkolab.html).
Sandmeyer Award 2016
CHF 20,000
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The SCS awards the team comprising researchers from Sika Technology AG, ETH Zürich and the University of Colorado Boulder, namely
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for their experimental and modelling studies of new commercial organic additives for the grinding of inorganic solids.
The award ceremony takes place at the SCS Fall Meeting 2016 and the lecture is given on the occasion of the 13. Freiburger Symposium in Fribourg 2017.
Dr. Max Lüthi Award 2016
CHF 1,000 and medal in bronze
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The SCS awards Mr. Flavio Gall, ZHAW Wädenswil, for his master his Bachelor Diploma Studies on the design and synthesis of cyclic metalloprotease inhibitors. The ceremony and the lecture takes place at the ILMAC-Forum in Basel on Fri, 23. September 2016 |
Berne, December 8, 2015
David Spichiger, Executive Director
Swiss Chemical Society SCS
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David Spichiger, SCS
08.12.2015