It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2022 SCS Scientific Award Programs. We would like to sincerely con-gratulate all winners for their outstanding scientific contri-butions, and we are looking forward to the award ceremonies and lectures that will take place at one of our upcoming SCS events.
Paracelsus Prize 2022
The award is endowed with CHF 20,000 and a medal in gold.
Prof. Antonio Togni, ETH Zurich
is awarded for his groundbreaking contributions to organic, inorganic, organometallic chemistry and catalysis both in industry and academia as well as for his inspiring approaches to teaching and education.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 8, 2022.
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Werner Prize 2022
The prize is endowed with CHF 10,000 and a medal in bronze.
Prof. Fabian O. von Rohr, University of Zurich
receives the prize for developing sophisticated approaches to the design and preparation of novel quantum materials that show emergent collective quantum phenomena, such as superconductivity or magnetic order, or materials with topologically non-trivial properties.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Spring Meeting in Geneva on April 22, 2022.
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Sandmeyer Prize 2022
The award is endowed with CHF 20,000.
The SCS honors Alain Vaucher, Daniel Probst, Philippe Schwaller, Theophile Gaudin, Teodoro Laino, Matteo Manica, Alessandra Toniato, Federico Zipoli, Antonio Cardinale, Alessandro Castrogiovanni, Heiko Wolf, Aleksandros Sobczyk, Joppe Geluykens, from the RXN for Chemistry Project Team from IBM Research
for their important scientific breakthrough in the digitalization of synthetic organic chemistry that helps to improve digital work-flows with state-of-the-art machine learning technologies.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 8, 2022 and at the Freiburger Symposium 2023.
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Senior Industrial Science Award 2022
The award is endowed with CHF 10,000.
Dr. Bernd Kuhn, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG,
receives the prize for his ground-breaking achievements over the past two decades, bringing together novel computational approaches and medicinal chemistry knowledge that led to new drug designs and scientific discoveries that have had tremendous impact on small molecule discovery projects.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 8, 2022.
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Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award 2022
The award is endowed with CHF 10,000.
Prof. Xile Hu, EPFL Lausanne
is awarded for his outstanding, interdisciplinary research program to develop catalysis for sustainable synthesis of added-value chemicals and for cost-effective production of solar and electric fuels.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 8, 2022.
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Balmer Prize 2022
The awards are endowed with CHF 4,000 and a medal in bronze.
Dr. Urs Leisinger, Kantonsschule Zug
wird geehrt für seine höchst engagierte und innovative Lehrtätigkeit, sein Engagement in Politik und Lehrerfortbildung sowie für die Entwicklung und Implementierung des Projekts «Molekularium», welches neue Möglichkeiten für den Chemieunterricht erschliesst und welches - ergänzend zum klassischen Theorie- und Experimentalunterricht - Hilfsmittel für den produktiven Einsatz von Computern an Gymnasien bietet.
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Dr. Paolo Lubini, Liceo cantonale di Lugano 2, Savosa and
Mr. Michele D’Anna, Liceo cantonale di Locarno (retired)
are honored for developing and implementing their concepts of energy, entropy, and the chemical potential, the latter being key to a new way of teaching chemistry at high-school level, thus representing to most significant didactic innovation in view of an early and systematic understanding of chemical reactivity and equilibrium.
Dr. Max Lüthi Prize 2022
The prize is endowed with CHF 1,000 and a medal in bronze.
Ms. Stefanie Rychard, HEIA Fribourg
is honored for her outstanding Bachelor project: «Optimisation of extraction methods for the analysis of natural dyes in cultural heritage objects»
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David Spichiger, SCS
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