Honorary Members

Honorary membership is awarded to individuals who have rendered the Swiss Chemical Society great service or who have made an outstanding contribution to science.

2025  Prof. Ernö Pretsch, Uetikon am See
              Prof. Antonio Togni, Zürich

2022  Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann, Reinach
              Prof. Martin Quack, Pfaffhausen
              Dr. Reto Naef, Rheinfelden

2016  Prof. E. Peter Kündig, Chancy

2010  Prof. Duilio Arigoni, Zürich
              Prof. Albert Eschenmoser, Küsnacht

2006  Prof. Camille Ganter, Zürich

2004  Prof. Jack Dunitz (John Jack Dunitz), Küsnacht
              Prof. Dieter Seebach, Zürich

2003  Prof. Richard R. Ernst, Winterthur
              Prof. Kurt Wüthrich, Zürich

1997  Prof. Arnold Brossi, Bethesda, USA
              Prof. George Hermann Büchi, Cambridge, USA
              Prof. Hans Kuhn, Tschingel ob Gunten

1996  Dr. Walter Graf, Visp
              Dr. Karl Heusler, Basel
              Prof. Wolfgang von Philipsborn, Zürich

1995  Dr. Roger Firmenich, Genève

1988  Dr. Otto Isler, Uttwil TG
              Prof. Rudolf Zahradník, Prague

1987  Prof. Edgar Lederer, Gif-sur-Yvette

1986  Prof. Vladimir Prelog, Zürich

1983  Prof. Edgardo Giovannini, Fribourg

1978  Prof. Tetsuo Nozoe, Tokyo

1976  Prof. Otto Kratky, Graz
              Prof. Feodor Lynen, München
              Prof. Guy Ourisson, Strasbourg
              Prof. Mario Simonetta, Milano

1972  Prof. Paul D. Bartlett, Cambridge, USA
              Prof. André Horeau, Paris
              Lord Alexander Todd, Cambridge, UK

1970  Prof. Heinrich Brockmann, Göttingen

1967  Prof. Tadeus Reichstein, Basel

1966  Prof. Robert Burns Woodward, Cambridge, USA
              Prof. Edmond Cherbuliez, Genève

1964  Prof. Giovanni Battista Bonino, Genova
              Prof. Walter Hieber, München

1963  Prof. Georg Wittig, Heidelberg
              Prof. Giulio Natta, Milano

1962  Prof. Domenico Marotta, Roma

1959  Prof. Fritz Feigl, Rio de Janeiro
              Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Oxford
              Prof. Arnaldo Quilico, Milano
              Prof. Carl Schöpf, Darmstadt

1955  Prof. Arne Tiselius, Uppsala

1952  Prof. Christopher Kelk Ingold, London
              Prof. Jean Timmermans, Bruxelles
              Prof. Karl Freudenberg, Heidelberg

1950  Prof. Roger Adams, Urbana

1947  Prof. Paul Karrer, Zürich
              Prof. Linus Pauling, Pasadena
              Prof. Leopold Ruzicka, Zürich

1942  Prof. Richard Willstätter, Muralto

1938  Prof. Frédéric Swarts, Gand
              Prof. Marcel Delépine, Paris
              Prof. Max Bodenstein, Berlin

1936  Prof. Nicola Parravano, Rome

1929  Prof. Hans Rupe, Basel

1927  Prof. Amé Pictet, Genève

1925  Dr. Gadient Engi, Basel
              Prof. Oskar Billeter, Neuchâtel
              Prof. Friedrich Fichter, Basel

1913  Ernest Solvay, Bruxelles

1911  Prof. Emilio Noelting, Mülhausen (Elsass)

SCS Medal

The Swiss Chemical Society Medals are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service or have made an exceptional contribution to chemistry.

2010  Dr. Maurice Cosandey, St-Prex