Prof. E. Peter Kündig awarded the SCS Honorary Membership

For his outstanding contributions to the Swiss chemical community, Prof. E Peter Kündig was awarded the SCS Honorary Membership.

The distinction is given in recognition of his research achievements in organic synthesis and catalysis with transition metals during his career but also in recognition of his far-ranging and thoughtful management as president of the Platform Chemistry of the Academy of Natural Sciences in the years 2007–2009 and as president of the Swiss Chemical Society in the past six years since 2010.

The ceremony took place at the Zunfthaus zum Rüden, Zürich, on the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2016 dinner on September 14.

E. Peter Kündig was born 1946 in Weinfelden, Switzerland and got his MSc degree (Dipl.chem) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1971. For his PhD studies he joined the group of Prof. Geoffrey A. S. Ozin at the Toronto University in Canada and succeeded his thesis in 1975.

After a Postdoc at University of Bristol, UK, with Prof. P. Timms he moved to the University of Geneva in 1978 and accepted an Assistant Professorship. In 1986 he became Associate Professor followed by 22 years as Full Professor in Organic Chemistry until 2012. Since then Peter is Emeritus Professor at University of Geneva.

In the name of the SCS Board of Directores, the SCS Executive Board, the SCS Award Board and all members of the Swiss Chemical Society we like to congratulate you again for your contributions and your enormous engagement for the community.

Links:
SCS Honorary Members
Website Prof. E. Peter Kündig

Paracelsus Award 2016 to Prof. Michael Graetzel

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting dinner Prof. Michael Graetzel was awarded the Paracelsus Award 2016, the highest distinction of the SCS award program. In the Zunfthaus zum Rüden in Zurich, more than 60 guests from academia and industry paid homage to the prize winner and joined the event on September 14, 2016.

In the name of the SCS Award board and the SCS Board of Directors we like to congratulate again to Prof. Graetzel and his team.

Paracelsus Prize 2016

CHF 20,000 and medal in gold. The award is given to

Prof. Michael Graetzel, EPF Lausanne,

for his invention and development of the dye-sensitized solar cell.

Photo: Prof. Michael Graetzel (right) and Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker, SCS President (left)

Sandmeyer Prize 2016 awards Joint Team unter the Lead of Sika

At the dinner of the SCS Fall Meeting in the Zunfhaus zum Rüden, Zurich, on September 14, 2016, the SCS awarded the joint team from Sika, ETHZ and the University of Colorado Boulder for their innovative work in the field of industrial and applied chemistry.

The Sandmeyer Award 2016, CHF 20'000, goes to

the team comprising researchers from Sika Technology AG, ETH Zürich and the University of Colorado Boulder, namely
Dr. Martin Weibel, Sika Technology AG
Dr. Thomas Müller, Sika Deutschland GmbH
Dr. Ratan K. Mishra, ETH Zürich
Prof. Robert J. Flatt, ETH Zürich
Prof. Hendrik Heinz, University of Colorado Boulder,

for their experimental and modelling studies of new commercial organic additives for the grinding of inorganic solids.

On September 15, the team presented their project(s) as morning plenary lecture of the SCS Fall Meeting to a full lecture hall with close to 500 listeners.

We like to congratulate the team members again and thanks them for their fantastic work and the interesting lecture.

David Spichiger, SCS, Photo S. Lüthi
19.09.16

KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award Ceremonies 2016

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting Dinner Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker, President of the SCS and member of the KGF board awarded the KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award winners 2016. More than 60 guests from academia and industry joined the ceremony and the dinner at the Zunfthaus zum Rüden in Zürich on September 14, 2016, and paid homage to the prize winners.

In the name of the SCS Award board and the SCS Board of Directors we like to congratulate again to the winners.

KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Science Award 2016
CHF 10'000. The award was given to

Dr. Eric Francotte, Novartis Pharma AG,

for his outstanding contributions to chromatographic resolution of racemic compounds on optically active polymers as chiral stationary phases and his pioneering work in implementing new preparative chromatographic techniques.

and

Prof. Peter Nesvadba, BASF Schweiz AG,

for his groundbreaking contributions to the discovery and development of novel stabilizers for monomers and polymers, novel dyes, first industrial realization of controlled radical polymerization, to the development of safe alternatives to organic peroxides and for his engagement as bridge builder between academia and industry.

KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award 2016
CHF 7'000. The award was given to

Dr. Martin H. Bolli, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd,

for his excellent contributions in medicinal chemistry culminating in the discovery and development of Macitentan, a drug for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

and 

Dr. Andreas Herrmann, Firmenich SA,

for his essential contributions to make profragrance chemistry an interdisciplinary research area and to establish it as a key technology for fragrance delivery