It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 SCS Awards. We would like to sincerely congratulate all winners and we are looking forward to the ceremonies that will take place at one of our events during the year.
The Swiss Chemical Society awards the following awardees:
Werner Prize 2019
Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher, EPFL Lausanne, for his original and groundbreaking research on chemical conversion of plant material using protection group chemistry during biomass depolymerization and upgrading.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Spring Meeting in Dübendorf on April 5, 2019.
All Werner Prize Winners since 1936
Grammaticakis-Neumann Award 2019
Prof. David Sarlah,
University of Illinois, Urbana (USA),
for his great achievements is the development of photochemical dearomatization of nonactivated arenes that allows for a rapid incorporation of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon functionality with exquisite stereocontrol.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.
All Grammaticakis-Neumann Award Winners since 1985
Sandmeyer Prize 2019
Dr. Michael Berg, Dr. Stephan Hug, Dr. Annette Johnson (in memoriam), Dr. Andreas Voegelin and Prof. Lenny Winkel,
from the Eawag, Dübendorf,
for their experimental and modelling studies on drinking water contamination by arsenic and other geogenic elements with an enormous impact not only in Switzerland but around the globe.
The award lecture will take place at the Freiburger Symposium in Fribourg, on May 17, 2019 and at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.
All Sandmeyer Prize Winners since 1994
SCS Senior Industrial Science Award 2019
The Swiss Chemical Society awards
Dr. Fabrice Gallou, Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG, Basel,
in recognition of his outstanding track record of innovation and creativity in the field of organic synthesis and for his leadership in coaching and mentoring of young scientists at Novartis.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.
SCS Industrial Science Award 2019
The Swiss Chemical Society awards
Dr. Christoph Boss, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Allschwil,
to honor his outstanding contributions as medicinal chemists with remarkable analytical skills and an excellent flair for multidimensional lead optimization taking into consideration all aspects of modern medicinal chemistry.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.
All winners of one of the SCS Industrial Science Awards since 2013
Balmer Prize 2019
Dr. Rita Oberholzer,
Kantonsschule im Lee, Winterthur,
for developing and implementing an innovative and, in the meantime well-established, experiment of anodizing Caran d’Ache pens that can be easily used in a short hands-on training at Gymnasium level.
The award lecture will take place at the ChemEdu Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.
All Balmer Prize Winners sind 2010
Dr. Max Lüthi Award 2019
Ms. Sandra Witschard,
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Wädenswil,
for her Bachelor thesis focusing on «Voxelated planar spheroid tissue assembly»
and
Mr. Ivan Cornu,
Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture Fribourg,
for his Bachelor thesis entitled «Synthesis of new pinene-phenanthroline and pinene-terpyridine type ligands».
The award lectures will take place at the ILMAC 2019 in Basel on September 27, 2019.
All Dr. Max Lühti Award Winners since 1992
David Spichiger, SCS
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