Dr Johann Ostmeyer, University of Liverpool, UK, Christoph Schürmann, University of Bonn, and Prof Dr Carsten Urbach, University of Bonn, have been awarded the Mario Markus Prize for Ludic Sciences for their publication in which they scientifically investigated the flight behaviour of beer mats. The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honours scientific work in the field of natural sciences that is characterised by its playful nature with the 10,000 euro prize. The award winners convinced the selection committee with their playful approach to a complex topic in order to gain exciting insights. The award ceremony will take place on 6 December at a public event on the premises of the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt am Main.
During a visit to a brewery together, Johann Ostmeyer, Christoph Schürmann and Carsten Urbach, who were all at the University of Bonn at the time, asked themselves why beer mats, when thrown, do not fly straight ahead like Frisbees, but "tip over" and fall to the ground. Their scientific curiosity was aroused and so the three researchers dedicated themselves to the scientific investigation of the phenomenon. It turned out that the cause of the special flight characteristics was a combination of gravity, buoyancy and conservation of angular momentum: The beer mat tilts backwards shortly after being thrown due to gravity. This gives it an angle of attack similar to that of an aeroplane landing. This angle generates lift in the airflow. "However, the lifting force does not act in the centre of the beer mat, but in the front third," explains Ostmeyer, who came up with the idea for the study. To arrive at these results, the scientists built their own beer mat throwing machine and recorded the flights with a high-speed camera. They published the results under the title "Beer Mats make bad Frisbees" in the journal "The European Physical Journal Plus".There is no concrete application for their research. However, with their work, the prizewinners illustrate the entire process of gaining scientific knowledge - from observation to theory and its experimental verification through to its adaptation and further development. In doing so, they impressively demonstrate how a complex topic can be approached in a playful way and how new insights can be gained in the process.
The Mario Marcus Prize for Ludic Sciences, endowed with 10,000 euros, is being awarded by the GDCh for the first time this year. The prize is funded by Prof Dr Mario Markus, Dortmund, who has dedicated himself to ludic science and coined this term. The award ceremony will take place on 6 December at 5 pm in cooperation with the Physikalischer Verein in the lecture theatre of the Physikalischer Verein at Robert-Mayer-Straße 2 in Frankfurt/Main. During the event, the prizewinners will explain their research in more detail and present their beer mat throwing machine. All interested parties are cordially invited to the event. Please register by 27 November at www.gdch.de/mariomarkus. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to visit the observatory of the Physikalischer Verein.With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It promotes scientific work, research and teaching as well as the exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge. One of its aims is to make modern chemistry understandable to interested members of the public and thus open up connections in science and technology to them.Image material for download:
This year, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is honouring two winners with the Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry. Dr Oliver Schadt, Merck, Darmstadt, receives the award for the optimisation and market launch of the active substance tepotinib, which enables innovative and molecularly targeted therapy options for advanced MET-dependent lung cancer. Dr Werner Bonrath, DSM, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, receives the award for the innovative processes he has developed and established for the sustainable production of vitamin E. Both award winners will receive the Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry together with prize money of 5,000 euros each at a ceremony in November.
Oncogenes (literally cancer genes) are parts of a cell's genetic material which, when activated excessively, promote unchecked tumour growth. One such oncogene is the MET protein. In some cases of non-small cell lung carcinoma, the protein is only degraded to a reduced extent, which leads to an uncontrolled amplification of growth signals. As part of the "MET Kinase Project", Oliver Schadt, Merck, Darmstadt, led a team of drug researchers in the search for an inhibitor of this oncogenic process. To this end, 350,000 substances were analysed for their suitability using high-throughput screening and the most promising compound was identified from around 1,100 potential starting points. Although this compound was already able to significantly reduce the activity of the MET kinase, it was optimised to meet the demanding requirements of a modern active substance. The approval of the active substance tepotinib made the MET protein, which had already been identified in 1984, therapeutically accessible for the first time.Schadt studied chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he also completed his doctorate in 1998. Immediately afterwards, he began his professional career at Merck, where he has been a Scientific Expert for Chemical Biology since 2017. In his more than twenty years of professional experience in drug discovery, he has contributed to more than ten drug design projects, helped to identify three clinical test substances and been involved in more than fifty patents and scientific contributions. Schadt will receive the Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry on 17 November at a ceremony in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main.
Vitamin E is the most important fat-soluble antioxidant in biological systems. It occurs naturally in numerous fats and oils and is essential for the function and maintenance of membranes. The most important market for vitamin E is animal feed: 85% of global production, 75,000 tonnes per year in 2019, is used in industrially produced feed mixtures for animals. Two key building blocks are required for the synthesis of vitamin E: 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone (TMHQ) and isophytol with subsequent acetylation, which can be produced in different ways. Werner Bonrath, DSM, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, has developed innovative processes for all process steps, in which new catalysts and process modifications have found their way into industrial practice. Thanks to his processes, manufacturing costs can be significantly reduced and sustainability considerably improved. Together with his team, Werner Bonrath has registered more than 300 patents, including 50 in the field of vitamin E, and published over 100 scientific papers
Bonrath studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 1988, he completed his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He then began his professional career in the chemical industry, which led him to DSM in 2003. He now works there as a Senior Science Fellow. In 2007, Bonrath completed his habilitation in technical chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In addition to his professional activities in industry, he is a lecturer at the University of Basel. Bonrath will receive the Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry on 30 November at a ceremony in Sisseln, Switzerland.
The Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry is awarded annually to scientists in German-speaking countries who have successfully introduced a current innovation in chemistry to the market. The focus is on market launches that prioritise the aspect of sustainability. The prize was donated by Professor Dr Erhard Meyer-Galow, former CEO of Hüls AG and former President of the GDCh. Meyer-Galow worked primarily at the interface between chemistry and the market and lectured on "Business Chemistry in the Chemical Industry" at the University of Münster.
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world with around 30,000 members. It has 27 specialised groups as well as 60 local associations and regional young chemists' forums. The GDCh promotes scientific work as well as the exchange and dissemination of new scientific findings. It maintains numerous foundations, such as the Meyer-Galow Foundation for Industrial Chemistry, which Professor Dr Erhard Meyer-Galow established in 2012 to further promote industrial chemistry.
Merck, a leading science and technology company, is active in the fields of healthcare, life science and performance materials. Over 60,000 employees work to make a difference in the lives of millions of people every day for a brighter future: From developing precise genome editing technologies to discovering unique ways to treat diseases and delivering applications for smart devices, Merck is everywhere. In 2021, Merck generated sales of €19.7 billion in 66 countries.
DSM is a global, purpose-led company active in nutrition, health & life sciences, applying its scientific knowledge to improve the health of people, animals and the planet. DSM's mission is to create a better life for all. With its products and solutions, DSM addresses some of the world's greatest challenges while creating economic, environmental and social value for all its stakeholders - customers, employees, shareholders and society as a whole. The company was founded in 1902 and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.dsm.com.
From now on, those interested in further training can find the new course programme of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for 2023 in the GDCh.academy. 62 courses from nine specialist areas and four specialist programmes offer many opportunities for further professional and personal development. In addition to training courses on classic chemistry topics such as synthesis methods and food chemistry issues, there will also be courses on quality assurance and modern methods and processes, for example. Courses for young scientists and career development are also on the programme for 2023.
The GDCh.academy provides a clear overview of all upcoming GDCh training courses, with extensive in-depth information on each course in addition to general information such as the course topic, event period, venue and course leader. The objectives and content of the training courses are described in detail and the recommended target group is outlined.A new two-day workshop on the risk assessment of microplastics addresses a highly topical issue. In addition to concepts and challenges for the risk assessment of microplastics, participants in the course will learn about analytical methods for determining exposure to microplastics and (eco)toxicological tools for risk assessment. (Regulatory) framework conditions in Germany and the EU are also presented and a laboratory demonstration on the analysis of microplastics using spectroscopic methods rounds off the course. The workshop is characterised by numerous interactive elements. These include, for example, an expectations analysis with the participants, station discussions, a world café and practical experimentation."Big data - basics, methods and practical implementation" is also part of the programme. The course is aimed at specialists and managers with no prior knowledge who are looking for a compact introduction to practical work with big data. While the handling of big data is becoming increasingly important for the economic success of companies, the topic has generally played a subordinate role in academic training to date. Many companies also still have no or only rudimentary approaches to appropriate data management. In this course, participants learn the basics of practical work with big data. In addition to the necessary statistical knowledge, they learn about the entire process of data acquisition, preparation and analysis in a detailed and practice-orientated manner. After completing the training, participants will be able to analyse data independently and successfully in their day-to-day work.In addition to the numerous individual courses, the proven GDCh specialist programmes "Certified Industrial Chemist (GDCh)® (m/f/d)", "Certified Quality Expert GxP (GDCh) (m/f/d)" and Certified Project Manager Industrial Chemistry GDCh (m/f/d) will also be offered in 2023. In addition, the specialist programme "Certified Emergency Manager (GDCh) (m/f/d)" will be offered for the second time. In the specialist programme, preparation, reaction and solution options are presented in order to be able to initiate adequate measures in emergency situations within the shortest possible time. Participants learn how companies, managers and employees can remain capable of acting in an emergency.In all GDCh.academy courses, participants benefit from speakers with a high level of experience and expertise. In addition to the classroom courses, e-learning courses are also offered, so that there is a suitable course for every type of learner.Detailed information on the courses and specialist programmes can be found at https://gdch.academy
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It promotes scientific work, research and teaching as well as the exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge. The GDCh supports education in schools and universities as well as continuous professional and career development.
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The August Wilhelm von Hofmann Foundation established by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is once again awarding scholarships for the 2023 summer semester. Bachelor's, diploma or final-year students of chemistry and related fields can receive a scholarship of 300 euros per month for a period of 18 or twelve months from April 2023. Applications must be submitted via the online portal by 1 February 2023.
Bachelor's, diploma or final-year students in chemistry and related fields with very good academic achievements who find themselves in an economically unfavourable situation can apply for one of around twenty scholarships from the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Foundation. Commitment outside of studies is also a criterion for the award. A further requirement is that students must be in the fourth or fifth semester of their degree programme at the start of the 2023 summer semester. Funding ends at the end of the sixth semester at the latest.The scholarship cannot be extended. A new application cycle takes place every year in the winter semester. The scholarship is not offset against BAföG benefits, but double funding alongside other performance-based material funding from the organisations for the promotion of gifted students is excluded.The August Wilhelm von Hofmann Foundation is named after the first president of the GDCh's predecessor organisation, the German Chemical Society, which was founded in 1867. The founder was a long-standing GDCh member who died in 2010 and bequeathed the majority of his estate to the GDCh in order to support talented chemistry students.
Further information at www.gdch.de/hofmannstiftungThe German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world with around 30,000 members. The GDCh manages numerous dependent foundations on a fiduciary basis. The purpose of these foundations is to award prizes, sponsorship awards and scholarships. Foundation advisory boards decide on the awarding of prizes, awards and scholarships.
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The joint lecture conference for inorganic chemistry of the Wöhler-Vereinigung & Solid State Chemistry and Materials Research divisions will take place from 26 to 28 September. The two sections of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) will present the latest trends from all areas of inorganic chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg. In addition, a number of prestigious awards will be presented to outstanding chemists during the conference. Professor Dr Franc Meyer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, will receive the GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry.
The conference programme includes interdisciplinary topics that represent the entire spectrum of modern inorganic and solid-state chemistry through to industrial applications and important future topics. The spectrum of presentations ranges from main group element chemistry and the coordination chemistry of d- and f-block elements to solid state and materials chemistry in basic research and industrial applications.
Directly at the beginning of the conference on 26 September, Professor Dr Franc Meyer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, will receive the GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry, endowed with 7500 euros. The GDCh is thus honouring his consistent scientific excellence in the field of coordination chemistry, particularly in the area of cooperative effects between multinary metal centres, in which he plays a leading role worldwide.Franc Meyer, born in Hamburg in 1965, studied chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, where he also gained his doctorate in 1993. After a postdoctoral period at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, he completed his habilitation at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1995 to 2000. In 2001, he accepted an appointment at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, where he is still a professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. Meyer conducts research into metal complexes in biological systems. In the laboratory, he builds synthetic metal compounds in order to understand the principles and efficiency of their catalytic effect. He wants to elucidate the molecular basis in order to better understand processes in the body, but also to develop new technical catalysts. Meyer has already received numerous awards for his work and is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund - Academy of Science, Medicine and Technology, Sweden, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, among others. He has been a committed GDCh member since 1991 and is currently Deputy Chairman of the Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry.
The GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry goes back to the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize, which has been awarded since 1950. In March 2022, the GDCh Board decided to no longer name the Prize for Inorganic Chemistry after Stock. With this measure, the Board emphasises the GDCh's clear stance against anti-Semitism and discrimination as well as a clear commitment to diversity and equal opportunities. A detailed explanation can be found in issue 07/08 2022 of Nachrichten aus der Chemie.At the conference, Professor Dr Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich, will also be awarded the Rudolf Hoppe Lecture. The named lecture includes an invitation to give four lectures at different locations in Germany, funded by the division, and is also endowed with 1000 euros. With this award, the Division of Solid State Chemistry and Materials Research is honouring Fässler's outstanding work on lithium ion conductors and his excellent interdisciplinary contributions in the field of solid state and materials research.This year, the TANIOBIS doctoral prize of the Solid State Chemistry and Materials Research Division, endowed with 5000 euros and donated by TANIOBIS GmbH, is shared by Dr Janett Schmelzer for her work on lithium ion conductors.Janett Schmelzer for her dissertation written at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, in which she describes a novel approach to the presentation of different alloy variants of vanadium-based multiphase materials, and Dr Nicolas Zapp for his dissertation on the synthesis of complex heteroanionic compounds of rare earth elements written at the University of Leipzig.The Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry is also awarding the Wöhler-BASF Young Scientist Prize, endowed with 5000 euros, to Dr Terrance J. Hadlington, Technical University of Munich. He receives the award for his outstanding research on novel catalysts for bond activation of small molecules at the interface between low-valent main group fragments and transition metals using novel single-centre ambiphilic ligands.
In addition, the division will be awarding the Wöhler Doctoral Prize for Inorganic Chemistry, which is endowed with 1000 euros, for the first time. Dr Gabriele Hierlmeier, Langquaid, will be honoured for her dissertation entitled "Phosphorus-Containing Tetrahedranes: Synthesis and Reactivity Studies", which she wrote at the University of Regensburg, and Dr Bastian Rösch, Emskirchen, for his doctoral thesis entitled "Moving Frontiers in Organometallic and Low-valent Alkaline Earth Metal Chemistry", which he wrote at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Further information on the conference: http://www.gdch.de/inorgchemconf2022
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It has 27 specialised groups as well as 60 local associations and regional forums of the JCF (JungesChemieForum). The GDCh promotes scientific work as well as the exchange and dissemination of new scientific findings. It supports the creation of networks, transdisciplinary and international cooperation and continuous education and training at school, university and in the workplace.
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Food quality and consumer protection are the focus of the 50th German Food Chemists' Day, which will take place at the University of Hamburg from 19 to 21 September 2022. The Food Chemistry Society, a specialist group of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), will also be celebrating its 75th anniversary at the conference. In the lecture programme, food chemists will present new methods for more sustainable food analysis, for the detection of mechanically separated meat and for the detection of false aromas, for example in cocoa. Scientific poster sessions, a trade and book exhibition and a public evening lecture by Lars Fischer, winner of the GDCh Prize for Journalism and Literature 2022, will round off the conference. The festive session will also look back on 75 years of the Food Chemistry Society.
The scientific programme of the annual Food Chemists' Day once again demonstrates the crucial role that food chemistry plays in the everyday lives of consumers. For example, Prof Dr Stefan Wittke from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences will be presenting a new method for detecting mechanically separated chicken meat (mechanically separated meat) in sausages. Together with his team, he developed a so-called "targeted" LC-MS/MS analysis, which can detect even small amounts of disc and cartilage-specific proteins from the chicken. These inevitably end up in the sausage when mechanically separated meat is used. The high specificity of the method also makes further comprehensive (bio)chemical characterisation of the sample superfluous. Together with her team at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Daniela Füllemann ensures that chocolate tastes good. Off-flavours occasionally occur in raw cocoa, which can lead to costly recalls in the worst-case scenario. This is because the concentration of most off-flavours hardly changes when raw cocoa is processed into chocolate. Füllemann shows how she used molecular sensory methods to identify compounds that lead to ham-smoky, mouldy-musty and coconut-like off-flavours. With the results and based on the odour threshold concentrations, she and her team were able to propose threshold values in raw cocoa for incoming goods inspection in the chocolate industry. Studies on minimising the formation of off-flavours in raw cocoa production are currently underway.Dr René Bachmann from Landeslabor Schleswig-Holstein will be presenting a new analytical method for more sustainable food analysis at the conference. Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy is a further development of conventional Raman spectroscopy and enables measurements to be taken through thicker and coloured packaging of different materials. The method is currently used in the pharmaceutical industry to check the authenticity of raw materials as part of quality control without having to open the packaging. Bachmann demonstrates the benefits of Raman spectroscopy for analysing food in official food monitoring and the quality control of food processing companies. Until now, almost all samples have had to be analysed invasively, which is neither economical nor sustainable. Together with his team, he developed an exemplary measurement and evaluation routine for packaged, raw chicken breast, the results of which he will present in his lecture.Other exciting topics at the 50th German Food Chemists' Conference include a smartphone app for the personalised selection of suitable foods for intolerances and allergies, the fermentation of leftovers from bread and pasta production to create alternative protein sources, as well as flavour analysis and chemo-communication.Further information on the conference can be found at www.gdch.de/lchtag2022
With around 30,000 members, the GDCh is one of the largest chemical science societies in the world. It has 27 specialist groups, including the Food Chemistry Society, whose task is to promote the exchange of ideas in the field of food chemistry and its neighbouring disciplines and to provide technical suggestions. With around 2,700 members, the Food Chemistry Society is the largest specialist group in the GDCh.
Press release as pdf documentThe 132nd Assembly and 200th anniversary celebrations of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (GDNÄ) will take place in Leipzig from 8 to 11 September 2022. The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) traditionally contributes to the event with a scientific session and the awarding of the Liebig Memorial Medal. This year's prizewinner is Professor Dr Claudia Felser from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden.
With the Liebig Medal, which is endowed with 7500 euros, the GDCh recognises outstanding achievements in the entire field of chemistry. Claudia Felser receives the award for her remarkable work in the field of theoretical prediction of physical properties in inorganic solids and their experimental confirmation, which has already led to several significant breakthroughs in the chemistry and physics of solids. The physical phenomena she has studied, such as initially superconductivity and thermoelectrics, and today (among others) the world of topological insulators, are of particular interest and high relevance in basic research and applications. Felser's current research focuses on the design, synthesis and physical investigation of new quantum materials, in particular Heusler compounds and topological materials for energy conversion and spintronics.Claudia Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne, where she completed both her diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994). After postdoctoral stays at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and the CNRS in Nantes (France), she joined the University of Mainz as an assistant professor in 1996 and was appointed full professor there in 2003. She is currently Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. In 2001, Felser was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for founding the first school laboratory "NaT-Lab" at the University of Mainz with a focus on supporting schoolgirls in particular. She is a Fellow of the IEEE Magnetic Society, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, London, CIFAR Canada and the Materials Research Society of India. In 2018, she became a member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering. She has already received an ERC Advanced Grant twice and numerous other honours.
The award ceremony will take place on 9 September as part of the "Chemistry" session, which will be opened by GDCh President Dr Karsten Danielmeier. After the award ceremony, the prizewinner will give a lecture on the topic of "Chirality and Topology". The GDCh will also be awarding two honorary memberships: Dr Hilde Nimmesgern, head of the GDCh's Equal Opportunities Commission, and Professor Dr Herbert W. Roesky will receive the award for their outstanding services to the promotion of chemistry and the goals of the GDCh, which the GDCh General Assembly had already decided by a large majority in 2021.With around 30,000 members, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It awards numerous internationally recognised prizes, including the Liebig Medal, which was first awarded in 1903. Among those honoured are numerous later Nobel Prize winners: Adolf von Baeyer, Paul Ehrlich, Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, Max Planck, Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, Feodor Lynen, Karl Ziegler and Gerhard Ertl.
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The 22nd ORCHEM will take place at the University of Münster from 5 to 7 September. The conference is one of the most attractive conferences in the field of organic chemistry for scientists from research and industry due to its broad range of topics and renowned speakers. The programme includes lectures on synthesis, catalysis, methodology and reactivity. The conference is organised by the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). The Emil Fischer Medal, the GDCh Prize for Biocatalysis and the ORCHEM Prize will also be awarded at ORCHEM.
On 5 September, the GDCh will award the Emil Fischer Medal to Professor Dr Peter Bäuerle, University of Ulm. Bäuerle will receive the award, which is endowed with 7500 euros, for his work in the field of oligothiophenes and other pi systems. With his research, the prizewinner has laid the foundation for organic photovoltaics and thus co-founded an international field of research.
Peter Bäuerle, born in Aichtal-Grötzingen in 1956, studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, where he also gained his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1985. After a postdoctoral stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, he carried out research and habilitated at the University of Stuttgart until 1994. From 1994-1996 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg until he was appointed to the University of Ulm. There he is still Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry II and New Materials and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Service Centre. Bäuerle is a member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, as well as the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and has already received numerous awards for his research.Also on 5 September, Dr Ulrich Markel, University of California, San Diego, USA, will receive the GDCh Prize for Biocatalysis for his dissertation written at RWTH Aachen University. The award, endowed with 2000 euros, honours outstanding dissertations in the field of biocatalysis and was established in 2020 by GDCh member Prof. Dr Manfred Schneider. Markel receives the award for his outstanding doctoral thesis in the interdisciplinary field of developing new methods of directed evolution to improve the catalytic properties of natural and artificial metalloenzymes. His thesis entitled "Directed evolution of decarboxylase OleT and nitrobindin hybrid catalysts" was awarded "summa cum laude" and led to a series of high-ranking publications.
On 6 September, the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry will award the ORCHEM Prize, which comes with prize money of 2500 euros each, to two young scientists. Dr Johannes Broichhagen, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie Berlin, will be honoured for the development of new molecular tools to answer important questions in the life sciences. Junior Professor Dr Max Hansmann, Technical University of Dortmund, receives the prize for his fundamental and pioneering work in the field of synthesis and characterisation of reactive intermediates and the development of organic redox systems. The ORCHEM Prize is regularly awarded at ORCHEM to young scientists who have qualified through new, original and pioneering scientific work in the field. Following the award ceremony, both prizewinners will give a brief insight into their research.
Further information on the conference at: www.gdch.de/orchem2022With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It has 27 specialist groups, including the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry with over 1,300 members. The main objectives of the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry include stimulating research directions and research projects in the field of organic chemistry, providing information about important activities in this field and publicising important and current aspects of organic chemistry through intensive public relations work.
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Dr Raphaël Rodriguez, Institut Curie, Paris, France, has been awarded the Klaus Grohe Prize 2022. The 50,000 euro award is one of the most highly endowed prizes in Europe for medicinal chemistry and is awarded by the Klaus Grohe Foundation, which is part of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Rodriguez receives the prize for his ground-breaking work at the interface between chemistry and biology, in which he combines preparative organic synthesis with molecular and cell biology. The award will be presented on 4 September by GDCh Board Member Dr Rolf Albach at the International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC 2022) in Nice, France.
Raphäel Rodriguez's research is advancing both chemistry and the understanding of biology at the molecular level in order to discover new therapeutic approaches. The scientist distinguished himself early in his career with pioneering contributions to chemical biology and medicinal chemistry and continues to tackle challenging research questions to which he finds convincing answers. Rodriguez works across disciplines and conducts his research at the highest level in order to apply his findings to drug research. For example, he contributed to the development of Remodelin - a small molecule that can restore laminopathy cell defects and improve cellular fitness by reducing endogenous levels of DNA damage. This work led to the identification of the acetyltransferase NAT10 as a drug target of Remodelin, which is involved in cell ageing and fitness. His achievements also include the first chemical synthesis of the complex natural product Marmycin and the drug Ironomycin, which is focussed on iron metabolism. With his research group, he also succeeded in clarifying the mechanism of action of salinomycin against cancer stem cells and identifying the role of iron in maintaining these cells.
Raphäel Rodriguez, born in 1978 in Avignon, FR, studied organic chemistry in Avignon and Marseille. He obtained his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK, and in Marseille. In 2005, he moved to the University of Cambridge, UK, as a postdoctoral researcher before joining the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Paris, FR, as a group leader in 2012. There he was appointed Research Director at the Institut Curie in 2017. Rodriguez is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and has received various honours, including the prestigious Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award, the Prix Lacassagne (Collège de France) and Grand Prix Charles Defforey (Académie des Sciences). He is the scientific co-founder of several companies, including SideROS and Adrestia Therapeutics.
The Klaus Grohe Prize is named after the chemist Prof Dr Klaus Grohe (*1934), who developed important innovative medicines with great success during his career. In 2001, Klaus and Eva Grohe established the Klaus Grohe Foundation at the GDCh, which has awarded the Klaus Grohe Prize for Medicinal Chemistry to young scientists since 2004. Since a reorganisation in 2020, the prize has been endowed with 50,000 euros and is now awarded to internationally renowned researchers in the field of drug development whose work makes an important contribution towards application.
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical science societies in the world. The GDCh manages numerous dependent foundations on a fiduciary basis. The purpose of these foundations is to award prizes, sponsorship awards and scholarships. Foundation advisory boards decide on the awarding of prizes, awards and scholarships.Press release as pdf documentImage material for download:
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honours Professor Dr Paul T. Anastas and Professor Dr John C. Warner with the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal for their outstanding services to chemistry. The GDCh thus honours the award winners as founders of the concept of green chemistry, for which they not only laid the scientific and intellectual foundations, but also realised concrete implementations. The award ceremony will take place on 1 September as part of the 8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
Over twenty years ago, Paul Anastas and John Warner formulated twelve principles of green chemistry in their work "Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice". With a visionary view of chemistry, they established the now indispensable field of green chemistry and laid the foundation for sustainable chemical product development. The award winners were also committed to the interdisciplinary integration of green chemistry at universities and actively contributed to its realisation in their own environment and at other locations worldwide. Anastas and Warner are now receiving the GDCh's August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal for their exemplary commitment to the merits of chemistry.
Long derided as a kind of chemistry vision for non-chemists and "greens", the principles of green chemistry are now more relevant than ever. The questions of how we can maintain industrial material flows and process chains with renewable energy sources in the near future or how we will have to abandon syntheses from fossil resources for ecological reasons are becoming increasingly urgent. Anastas and Warner have shown for the first time how a holistic (circular economy) approach can be used to develop new creative synthesis processes for the production of toxicologically and ecologically less harmful substances from these complex economic and eco-social contexts. The principles of green chemistry will become increasingly important in the future, particularly in light of the major challenges facing the chemical industry, for example with regard to decarbonisation and the rigorous regeneration of starting materials in existing material flows.
In addition to their pioneering achievements in the field of green chemistry, Paul Anastas and John Warner have high-calibre academic careers with numerous outstanding scientific publications and patents.
Paul T. Anastas, born in 1962 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He began his career as a chemist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he coined the term green chemistry and established the first research programme in this field. In 1997, he co-founded the Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society (ACS) and worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1999 to 2004 - most recently as Deputy Director for Environmental Affairs. Anastas returned to the EPA in 2009 as deputy administrator of the EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and as a scientific advisor to the agency before moving to Yale in 2012. There he is now Professor of Epidemiology, holder of the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Chair in Chemistry for the Environment and Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Anastas is known for his engaging and inspiring lectures and has received numerous awards and honours for his research.
John. C. Warner, born in 1962 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, also received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. After several years of research work at the Polaroid Corporation, he returned to the University of Massachusetts from 1996 to 2007. Among other things, Warner introduced the world's first doctoral programme in green chemistry there. In 2007, together with James Babcock, he founded the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, of which he was President and CTO until 2020. Today, he is Senior Vice President (Chemistry) and Distinguished Research Fellow at Zymergen Corporation and Global Sustainability Chair at the University of Bath, UK, Associate Professor of Green Chemistry at Monash University, Melbourne, AUS, and Invited Professor at AgroParisTech, FR. Warner is also involved in the non-profit organisation Beyond Benign, which he co-founded and which promotes education in green chemistry. Warner has published over a hundred papers and received numerous awards for his work. In 2017, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Technical University of Berlin announced that the "Chemical Invention Factory", which serves to promote and support technology transfer in green chemistry, would be named the "John Warner Center for start-ups in Green Chemistry" in Warner's honour. The realisation of the new building is currently in the second of three planning phases, with completion scheduled for 2025.
The GDCh awards the August Wilhelm Hofmann Memorial Coin - a gold coin - to personalities from Germany or abroad who have achieved great things for chemistry. The prize has a long tradition and was established by the predecessor society, the German Chemical Society, in 1902.The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) is the successor organisation to the FECS (Federation of European Chemical Societies), which was founded in 1970 with the significant involvement of the GDCh. EuChemS has over 40 chemical societies in over 30 countries as members, including the GDCh as the largest continental European chemical society with around 30,000 members - around 20 per cent of the chemists represented by EuCheMS. The scientific activities of EuChemS are primarily carried out by the relevant divisions and working parties. The EuChemS Chemistry Congress, which takes place every two years, takes centre stage.Press release as pdf documentImage material for download:
On the occasion of the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022/2023 (IYBSSD)" proclaimed by UNESCO, the five major scientific societies in the life sciences, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and physics are calling for basic research in Germany and its importance for sustainable development to be more highly valued, better communicated and more effectively promoted.
The global challenges posed by climate change, energy security, biodiversity conservation, food security, health care and pandemic management are enormous.
The mathematical and scientific disciplines provide fundamental methods and tools that can be used to record, describe and analyse the challenges and offer solutions.
The mathematical and scientific societies united in the "Science Connects" initiative emphatically welcome the activities of UNESCO, which has recommended 2022/2023 as the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development" in order to emphasise the importance of basic research for sustainable development. For the IYBSSD, UNESCO identifies fields of action and priority topics in which the mathematical and scientific societies are already active, either individually or collectively. Basic research is seen as a source of dialogue and peace, of innovation and economic development, of education and of overcoming global challenges. The accessibility of scientific findings and strengthening the visibility of women in basic research are also emphasised.
In addition, however, the major scientific societies in the life sciences, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and physics see additional fields of action that should be taken up and consolidated in this International Year.Politicians and society should recognise the fundamental importance of high-quality basic research for sustainable development more strongly, communicate it better and promote it more effectively. From the perspective of the mathematical and scientific societies, the following points are necessary for this:
- Tendering procedures and funding criteria must be designed in such a way that they do justice to the specific character of basic research. Specific funding programmes for basic research must be set up.- Research funders, universities and political decision-makers should provide additional funding at federal and state level for public outreach programmes that make the nature and importance of basic research transparent and understandable to the public. Those responsible for education in the federal states and at universities must ensure appropriate curricula, corresponding lesson quotas and well-trained teaching staff.The societies see sustainable development as a joint task, which is also an opportunity and obligation to enter into new collaborations and alliances with other active members of civil society. The learned societies want to clearly emphasise this link in the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development".
The position paper can be found online at:
https://wissenschaft-verbindet.de/gemeinsame-aktivitaeten/positionspapier-grundlagenforschung
The five major mathematical and scientific societies - the German Geosciences Association (DVGeo), the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the German Physical Society (DPG), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO) - together represent over 130,000 members. They are united by the awareness that those working in science have a particularly high degree of responsibility for shaping human life as a whole.
Press release as PDF documentLast year, significantly more students obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees than in the previous year. The number of doctorates in chemistry degree programmes also increased - only in biochemistry did it remain at roughly the same level as the previous year. However, fewer young people opted for a chemistry degree programme in 2021 than in 2020, according to the annual statistics for chemistry degree programmes published by the German Chemical Society (GDCh). The proportion of job-seeking graduates and those who initially accepted temporary positions remained at a low level.
In total, 8233 people opted for a chemistry degree programme last year (2020: 9384 people). The number of students who completed a chemistry degree programme with a Master's degree or the First State Examination rose to 3727 (2020: 3244), as did the number of doctorates, which increased from 2104 in 2020 to 2231 in the reporting year.The following results emerged for the individual degree programmes:
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. Among other things, it deals with current developments at universities and on the labour market. The GDCh has been collecting extensive statistical data on chemistry degree programmes every year since 1952. The 2021 statistics are based on data from chemistry and business chemistry, biochemistry and life sciences, food chemistry and chemistry degree programmes at universities of applied sciences (HAW), formerly universities of applied sciences. The survey asked about the number of first-year students and students, the number of final examinations passed and the respective final grades and duration of study. In addition, some universities provided information on the career entry of their graduates after completing their degree or doctorate. The cut-off date for the survey is 31 December.
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The German Chemical Society (GDCh) is honouring Professor Dr Egbert Willem "Bert" Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, with the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2022. He will receive the award, endowed with 7500 euros, on 12 September at the Biennial Meeting of the GDCh Division of Macromolecular Chemistry 2022, which will take place in Aachen from 12 to 14 September. Two Dr Hermann Schnell scholarships and the Reimund Stadler Prize of the GDCh Division of Macromolecular Chemistry will also be awarded at the meeting.
Bert Meijer will receive the Hermann Staudinger Prize for his outstanding and highly creative contributions in the field of supramolecular polymer chemistry. Among other things, Meijer researches and develops functional supramolecular polymers as a new class of materials. Through targeted molecular design and synthesis, he has realised systems in which monomeric units that self-assemble into supramolecular polymeric materials achieve special material properties. Before his discovery, it was assumed that these properties were reserved exclusively for (covalently linked) macromolecules. The reversible bonding of the building blocks enables simple processing. Supramolecular materials can thus be processed at much lower temperatures and pressures, while the customisable nature of supramolecular polymers opens up new avenues for these systems. Many of Meijer's strategies are "biomimetic" and transfer biological organisational principles to synthetic polymer materials.Bert Meijer, who was born in Groningen in the Netherlands in 1955, studied organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, where he also obtained his doctorate in 1982. After working at Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in Eindhoven and at Koninklijke DSM in Heerlen, he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology in 1991. He has also been Adjunct Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen since 1994, Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Sciences in Eindhoven since 2004 and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, since 2008. From 2008 to 2018, he was also Director of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems in Eindhoven. Meijer has been an Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 2014, an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz since 2018 and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, since 2022.
Bert Meijer has already received various scientific awards, including the SPINOZA Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (2001), the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017) and two ERC Advanced Research Grants (2010 and 2018). He is an honorary member of numerous academies and societies, has an impressive number of visiting professorships and named lectureships and, with over 750 scientific publications, has an h-index of 135.Two young scientists will also receive a Dr Herrmann Schnell Fellowship at the conference. Professor Dr Eva Blasco, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, will receive a scholarship worth 3,000 euros for her innovative research work in the highly topical field of functional materials for 3D laser printing and lithography. The prizewinner's research activities on materials for applications in 4D printing have the potential to revolutionise research fields such as microrobotics. Dr Robert Göstl, DWI - Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien e.V., Aachen, has been awarded another Dr Herrmann Schnell Scholarship in the amount of 3000 euros for his impressive research in the field of mechanophores. His work makes it possible to functionalise materials in new ways. The improved material properties open up new areas of application. The Dr Hermann Schnell scholarships are awarded by the GDCh foundation of the same name to support young scientists in the field of macromolecular chemistry, its physical-chemical principles and analytics.
Dr Robert Göstl will also be honoured with the Reimund Stadler Prize of the GDCh Macromolecular Chemistry Division. The specialist group usually awards the prize, which is endowed with 5000 euros, to a prospective university lecturer in the field of polymer chemistry and related fields in even-numbered years at the specialist group conference. The prizewinner is selected from among the participants of the university workshop for young academics. Göstl impressed the selection committee with his presentation entitled "From force-reporting to force-resistant: using mechanochemistry to understand polymer materials".
Further information on the conference can be found at www.gdch.de/makro2022
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It has 27 specialist groups, including the Macromolecular Chemistry specialist group with over 1,300 members. The division brings together scientists from universities, research institutes and industry from all areas of polymer chemistry and physics. The Macromolecular Chemistry Division has the right to nominate candidates for the GDCh's Hermann Staudinger Prize, named after the 1953 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and endowed with 7500 euros.
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Professor Dr Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University, New York, USA, will receive the 2022 Paul Bunge Prize, which will be awarded on 1 July as part of the GDCh History of Chemistry Division's lecture conference at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. The prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation is endowed with 7500 euros and is awarded jointly by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (DBG). It honours outstanding work on the history of scientific instruments.
Matthew L. Jones receives the Paul Bunge Prize for his highly topical and ground-breaking work at the interface between the history of computing machines, philosophy and artificial intelligence. His work "Reckoning with Matter", in which the prizewinner describes the development of calculating machines from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, is of particular interest. In addition to the concrete stories about the labour, technology and wages required to manufacture these scientific instruments, the book also covers the topics of industrial espionage and intellectual property and does not spare philosophical reflections on the significance of these machines. Among other things, Jones sheds light on the correspondence between (art) craftsmen and philosophers, addresses technical, financial, social and legal issues and shows in an impressive way how the material and the world of thought were harmonised in thinking machines.Matthew L. Jones studied the history and philosophy of science at Harvard College and Cambridge University and received his doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, in 2000. He then moved to Columbia University, New York, USA, where he is now Professor of History and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilisation. Jones has received numerous scholarships and awards for his research and has a large number of notable publications to his name. In addition to his research, he is also involved in various (university) committees and has worked as a consulting editor, proofreader and reviewer, among other things.
The Paul Bunge Prize is the world's most important honour in the field of the history of scientific instruments and is awarded publicly and internationally. To date, it has been awarded to British, Italian, US, Australian and Canadian scientists as well as German scientists. The award is decided by the advisory board of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation, which is supported by the GDCh and the DBG. Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1996), a chemist at Schott Glaswerke in Mainz, became known for his contributions to the history of scientific instruments, especially historical scales. He himself established the foundation in 1992. The prize is named after the Hamburg precision mechanic Paul Bunge (1839-1888), one of the leading designers of laboratory balances for chemical analysis.
As part of the conference, which offers a varied programme covering the history of chemistry and related fields from science and industry, the GDCh History of Chemistry Division will also award the Bettina Haupt Prize for the History of Chemistry. The award honours outstanding work in the history of chemistry by young scientists from the German-speaking world. This year, the prize goes to Christopher Halm, University of Regensburg, for his dissertation "The Early History of Agricultural Chemistry (1731-1813) - Chemical Appropriation of the Soil and the Emergence of Field Laboratories".Further information on the conference at www.gdch.de/geschichte2022With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It maintains numerous foundations, including the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation. The Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation is awarded annually, alternately at DBG Annual General Meetings and lecture conferences of the GDCh History of Chemistry Division.
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On 30 June, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) will award the Albrecht Kossel Prize, endowed with 7500 euros, to Professor Dr Andres Jäschke, University of Heidelberg, for his work on the chemical biology of nucleic acids. The award ceremony will take place at the GDCh Biochemistry Division conference in Münster from 29 June to 1 July.
Andres Jäschke impressed the selection committee with his pioneering contributions to the catalysis, regulation, modification and imaging of RNA. The RNA-based Diels-Alderase enzyme he developed and his work on it provided a fundamental insight into the structural and functional properties of RNA ribozymes. His discovery of natural RNA modifications brought completely new insights into the field of epitranscriptomics. Jäschke discovered that bacterial RNA can carry a nucleic acid (NAD)-based protective cap that significantly influences RNA lifespan. With this fundamental discovery, the prizewinner established a whole new branch of RNA biochemistry. Jäschke has also achieved impressive research results in live cell imaging, the development of novel DNA photoswitches and the development of bioorthogonal modifications of RNA and DNA. In his work, he combines organic synthesis with molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and modern bioanalytical methods.
Andres Jäschke, born in 1962, studied chemistry at Humboldt University Berlin, where he also gained his doctorate in 1993. After two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, he took over as head of his own research group at the Free University of Berlin in 1995, where he completed his habilitation in 2000. Two years later, Jäschke accepted an appointment at the University of Heidelberg, where he is still Professor of Pharmaceutical and Bioorganic Chemistry. In addition to an ERC Advanced Grant (2020), his work has also earned him the Hellmut Bredereck Prize from the GDCh foundation of the same name (2001) and the BioFuture Prize from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (1998). In addition to his scientific commitment, Jäschke is actively involved in the GDCh, of which he has been a member since 1998 - including on the board of the Biochemistry Division.
Further information on the conference can be found at www.gdch.de/biochemistry2022
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It has 27 specialised groups and sections and awards numerous prizes for outstanding achievements in various sub-disciplines of chemistry. The Albrecht Kossel Prize, endowed with 7500 euros, was established in 2012 and awarded for the first time in 2014. The namesake of the prize, Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927), was a German biochemist, physician and physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his research on the cell nucleus and the isolation of nucleic acids and determination of their constitutions.
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From 21 to 24 June 2022, analytica, the world's leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology, will take place for the 28th time at the Munich Exhibition Centre. It will be accompanied by the analytica conference from 21 to 23 June. In numerous sessions, scientists will report on current topics from the fields of analysis, quality control, diagnostics, measurement and testing technology as well as biotechnology and the life sciences. The scientific programme of the analytica conference is organised by the Forum Analytics, which is made up of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL).
After the last analytica was held online due to the pandemic, there will be another opportunity for face-to-face dialogue in Munich in 2022. Forum Analytik has put together a comprehensive programme for the conference that covers almost all fields of analytics and presents the latest trends and developments. It is essential that the topics are always highly relevant to practice, so that both research and application get their money's worth.
The high level of topicality can be seen, for example, in a session on aerosols and health. Among other things, this will focus on the limits and possibilities of investigations into the effect of exhaust gases on human lung cells. The presentation of a new photochemical method for toxicological investigations of aged aerosols from forest fires will focus on an innovative approach to measuring aerosols. Another presentation will show how photochemical processing affects the properties of aerosols produced by combustion.Current trends and developments in food and water analysis are not neglected in the analytica conference programme either: one session, for example, is dedicated to the analysis of emerging hazards in food. This includes mycotoxins - in particular new derivatives in the field of aflatoxin B1 - and the latest developments in their (bio)analysis; the analysis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, carcinogenic plant toxins, will also be discussed. Water analysis will be the focus of several sessions. Among other things, experts will provide information on the latest rapid methods for detecting pathogens and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the water cycle, the challenges of non-target screening in water analysis and how digitalisation can support modern water analysis.These are just some of the highlights of the scientific programme. In a total of 45 sessions, recognised experts will provide insights into almost all areas of analysis. In addition, several scientific awards will be presented during the conference: The GDCh Division of Analytical Chemistry will present the Clemens Winkler Medal and the Division Prize for Analytical Chemistry, the Division's Separation Science Working Group will award the Eberhard Gerstel Prize and the Gerhard Hesse Prize, and the Division's German Working Group for Analytical Spectroscopy (DAAS) will present the "Bunsen-Kirchhoff Prize for Analytical Spectroscopy". An accompanying poster exhibition, supported by the companies Agilent and Merck, rounds off the programme.
The analytica conference will take place at the ICM - International Congress Centre Munich, on the exhibition grounds. The conference language is English. Admission is free of charge for visitors to analytica. The joint stand of the analytics forum is located in Hall B2, No. 505.The current programme for the analytica conference can be found at www.gdch.de/analyticaconf2022 or in the event database at www.analytica.de/konferenz.Contact for the press:
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The German Chemical Society (GDCh) awards Prof. adj. Dr rer. nat. habil. Gisbert Schneider, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, the Gmelin-Beilstein Memorial Medal. The award will be presented on 9 May at the "17th German Conference on Cheminformatics and EuroSAMPL Satellite Workshop", the annual conference of the GDCh "Computers in Chemistry" specialist group in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The GDCh awards the Gmelin-Beilstein Memorial Medal, a silver medal that comes with a certificate and prize money of 7500 euros, to national and international personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the history of chemistry, chemical literature or chemical information. Professor Dr Gisbert Schneider is one of the best-known scientists in the field of chemical information and chemoinformatics and is regarded as a pioneer of today's artificial intelligence approaches in drug design. He received the award for his pioneering work in the integration of machine learning methods into practical medicinal chemistry. It was also Schneider who coined the terms "scaffold-hopping" and "frequent hitter" in medicinal chemistry, which have become an integral part of today's specialised vocabulary.
Gisbert Schneider, born in 1965, graduated in 1991 with a degree in biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin, where he also completed his doctorate in 1994. After postdoctoral work at the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital in Berlin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, he gained industrial experience at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland. During this time, Schneider completed his habilitation in biochemistry and bioinformatics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in 2000, where he subsequently worked as a private lecturer. From 2002 to 2009, he held the Beilstein Endowed Professorship for Chemistry and Bioinformatics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main until he was appointed Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich in 2010. From 2018 to 2020, Schneider was also Associate Vice President of ETH Global. Since 2021, he has also been Director of the Singapore-ETH Centre in Singapore.
Gisbert Schneider has received numerous awards for his scientific achievements, including the Herman Skolnik Award from the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2018) and the "Prous Institute - Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery" from the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC) (2020). In 2014, he was recognised by Thomson-Reuters as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds.Schneider has published more than 400 scientific papers, six world-renowned textbooks in the field of drug design and chemical information and was co-founder and editor of the Wiley-VCH journal Molecular Informatics.
Further information on the conference can be found at www.gdch.de/gcc2022
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It has 27 specialist groups, including the specialist group Computers in Chemistry (CIC) with over 500 members. The division was founded in 1982 because computer-aided administration, archiving, analysis, retrieval and generation of information was also becoming increasingly important in chemistry. It sees its main task as bringing together domestic and foreign scientists interested in information and documentation as well as computer applications in chemistry in order to communicate and further develop the latest findings in this field of knowledge through a lively exchange of ideas and experience.
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The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honours Professor Dr Sigrid Peyerimhoff with the Erich Hückel Prize. The scientist receives the award, which is endowed with 7500 euros, for the fundamental development of quantum chemical methods for calculating molecular properties, elucidating chemical reactions and analysing molecular spectra. The award will be presented at the 58th Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, which will take place in Heidelberg from 18 to 22 September 2022.
Sigrid Peyerimhoff is one of the most important and deserving theoretical chemists and has carried out pioneering work in quantum chemistry, which has led to Germany's leading position in theoretical chemistry worldwide. In addition to the fundamental development of quantum chemical methods, the GDCh honours in particular her development of the multi-reference approach in the configuration interaction method (MRD-CI) with selection and energy extrapolation including the spin-orbit interaction. Thanks to this method, groundbreaking investigations of molecules and ions in atmospheric chemistry, in the field of electron-molecule scattering and the calculation of the stability of atomic and molecular clusters were made possible.
The MRDI-CI method was initially applied to very small model systems. As a "theoretical spectrometer", it surpassed experimental accuracies and thus made a decisive contribution to the recognition and establishment of theoretical chemistry as an indispensable fundamental subject in chemistry.Sigrid Peyerimhoff, born in Rottweil in 1937, studied physics at Justus Liebig University Giessen after graduating from high school in 1956 and completed her degree in 1961. She then completed her doctorate in theoretical physics in Giessen on quantum chemical calculations of the hydrogen fluoride molecule. After research stays in the USA, including at the University of Chicago, the University of Washington and Princeton University, she habilitated in theoretical physics at the University of Giessen in 1967. From 1970 she was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Mainz and from 1972 at the University of Bonn, where she headed the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. She became emeritus professor in 2002.
Sigrid Peyerimhoff published a total of around 500 studies in scientific journals and anthologies. She has received numerous prestigious prizes and awards, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (1988), the Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2007), the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2008) and the Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (2018).
In addition to her academic work, Peyerimhoff also took on important tasks and functions in scientific societies and committees. She was a founding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1987 and Vice President of the German Research Foundation from 1990 to 1996. In 1999, she was appointed a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Peyerimhoff is also a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, the Academia Europaea and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. From 2006 to 2009, she was President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Sigrid Peyerimhoff has been a GDCh member since 1973. In her honour, the Working Group for Theoretical Chemistry has been awarding the Sigrid Peyerimhoff Doctoral Prize for outstanding doctoral theses in the field of theoretical chemistry since 2021.
Further information on the prizewinner can be found in the current issue of the GDCh member journal Nachrichten aus der Chemie in the article "Ausgezeichnet: The Hückel Prize winners Sigrid Peyerimhoff and Gernot Frenking".
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. In addition to 27 specialist groups, there are seven working groups under its umbrella, including the Working Group on Theoretical Chemistry, which is jointly organised by the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and the German Physical Society. The AG Theoretische Chemie organises annual symposia for theoretical chemistry.
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The Ars legendi Faculty Award for Excellent University Teaching in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences 2022 goes to Dagmar Hann and Daniela Meilinger (Biology, LMU Munich), Nele Milsch (Chemistry, Göttingen), Martin Schlather (Mathematics, Mannheim) and Julia Sammet (Physics, Frankfurt/Main).
The Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Mathematics and Natural Sciences honours outstanding, innovative and exemplary achievements in university teaching.
The prize is awarded by the Stifterverband, the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO), the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the German Mathematical Society (DMV) and the German Physical Society (DPG). It has been awarded annually since 2014 in the categories of biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics and is endowed with 5000 euros each. The winners are selected by a jury of students and lecturers from the participating subjects as well as university didactics.
The Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Mathematics and Natural Sciences 2022 goes to the following people:In the Biology category: to Dagmar Hann and Daniela Meilinger
Dagmar Hann and Daniela Meilinger from the Faculty of Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München have developed an interdisciplinary and multimedia programme that makes it easier for numerous international students to enter the molecular biology Master's degree programmes. The programme uses a variety of didactic methods that are cleverly coordinated and interlinked in different modules. The outstanding aspect of this is that a focus is also placed on teaching methodological principles in order to transfer the heterogeneous previous training of international students into a common basis. Social networking between students is also actively promoted. The jury recognises this as an exemplary teaching concept that could also be adopted in other departments.
Award ceremony
The date for the 2022 Ars Legendi Faculty Award for Mathematics and Natural Sciences has not yet been set. It will be announced in good time.
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Under the motto "Communicating the Future", the spring symposium of the JCF (JungesChemieForum) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) will take place from 23 to 26 March. In addition to scientific lectures, the conference at Leibniz Universität Hannover offers interactive workshops, poster sessions, social activities and numerous opportunities for personal exchange and networking. As part of the conference, the Dres. Volker and Elke Münch Prize for Science and Research will also be awarded to a young team of inventors for the first time. Another highlight will be the presentation of the Carl Roth Award for work on light-driven water splitting.
The JCF Spring Symposium is one of the largest conferences in Europe organised by and for young scientists. The event is organised annually by changing regional forums of the JCF (JungesChemieForum), the young scientists' organisation of the GDCh. In 2022, the regional JCFs in Hanover and Göttingen took over the organisation and jointly created an ambitious programme. In keeping with the motto "Communicating the Future", neighbouring disciplines and the young scientists' organisations of friendly societies were also included in the conference. For example, programme items from the jDPG of the German Physical Society (DGB), the Junior GBM of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and the yPC of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (DBG) are also represented at the conference.In addition to presentations by internationally renowned scientists such as Professor Dr Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam), Professor Dr Michèle Heurs (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and Professor Deborah Kays (University of Nottingham, UK), the joint event will also feature talks by junior research group leaders and young scientists in particular.
The Dres. Volker and Elke Münch Prize will be awarded for the first time on 24 March. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros and is awarded to young inventors who have made a pioneering invention in the field of chemistry or chemical process engineering. The founder couple, Dr rer. nat Volker Münch and Dr paed. Elke Münch, would like to promote science and research and the patent protection of the results. The prize money will be used to support the filing of a priority-based German patent application for the invention at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
This year, the award goes to Professor Dr Rainer Ostermann, Felix Leven and Johannes Limberg from the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Recklinghausen for the development of so-called liquid-solid drying (FFT) for cost-effective aerogel production. Thanks to this process, high-performance insulating materials made from aerogels, for example, can be produced at significantly lower prices than before. Aerogel insulating materials have two to four times the insulating performance of conventional insulating materials, but were previously ten to twenty times more expensive than glass wool, for example. The new process now enables a large number of aerogel-based insulation applications at significantly reduced costs.Also on 24 March, the Carl Roth Award will be presented as part of the conference. The GDCh awards the prize, which is endowed with 5,000 euros, to young chemists who develop resource-saving synthesis methods or use chemicals in innovative ways. The prize is financed by Carl Roth GmbH & Co KG, which also contributes a further 3000 euros in the form of a voucher. The prize goes to Dr Jacob Schneidewind, RWTH Aachen University, for his important contributions to the development of sustainable and resource-saving synthesis routes. In his master's thesis and his doctoral project at the University of Rostock and the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, he provided innovative impetus for photocatalytic water splitting for the production of green hydrogen, the material utilisation of CO2 and the sustainable synthesis of organic molecules.On 25 March, Niels Krausch and Dr Robert T. Giessmann and Christopher Keßler's team will also receive the inaugural FAIR4Chem Award for their published data sets from chemical research. The prize is awarded by the NFDI4Chem consortium, in which the GDCh is involved, and is supported by the Chemical Industry Fund.
Further information can be found at https://symposium.jcf.io.
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It promotes scientific work, research and teaching as well as the exchange and dissemination of new scientific knowledge. The GDCh supports the creation of networks, transdisciplinary and international co-operation and continuous education and training in schools, universities and professional environments. The GDCh has 27 specialist groups as well as 60 local chapters and regional forums of the JCF (Young Chemists' Forum) at 54 university locations. Nationwide, the JCF forms a platform for around 10,000 young members of the GDCh.
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The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) will be awarding two of its prestigious prizes at the Chemistry Lecturers' Conference in Saarbrücken from 21 to 23 March. Science journalist Lars Fischer will receive the GDCh Prize for Journalism and Literature 2022 and Dr Juliane Simmchen, Dresden University of Technology, will be honoured with the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize. The GDCh Working Group of German University Professors of Chemistry (ADUC) is hosting the conference for university lecturers from chemistry faculties in Germany and neighbouring countries. The working group will also award three ADUC prizes on site.
For his excellent journalistic work, the GDCh honours Lars Fischer with the GDCh Prize for Journalism and Literature 2022. The prize, endowed with 7500 euros, is awarded for outstanding journalistic or literary achievements that contribute in a special way to the dissemination of chemical science content in German-speaking countries. Fischer receives the award for his outstanding way of bringing chemistry and other natural sciences closer to all target groups, particularly via digital formats. His topics range from chemistry and materials research to infectious diseases and natural disasters. In the last two years, the science journalist has particularly distinguished himself with his well-founded and generally understandable articles on the Covid-19 pandemic.Lars Fischer, who was born in Hamburg in 1978, began his career as a chemical laboratory technician in analytics before studying chemistry at the University of Hamburg. After graduating, he started one of the first German science blogs and worked as a freelance science journalist. Today, he is an editor at "spektrum.de" and "Spektrum - die Woche", manages the blog platform "SciLogs" and runs the YouTube channel "Wir Werden Alle Sterben" with Mike Zeitz. Fischer is also connected to the GDCh: in 2007, he gained early journalistic experience during an internship in the editorial department of the GDCh member magazine "Nachrichten aus der Chemie".
The GDCh is also presenting another special award to Dr Juliane Simmchen, Dresden University of Technology. She receives the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize for her fascinating approaches in the field of active matter, which include the creative use of photocatalytic nanoparticles, but also enzymes, bacteria and hybrid systems to drive microswimmers. The selection committee particularly emphasised the fact that the prizewinner has succeeded with her research in asserting herself in a highly competitive and interdisciplinary field of work and establishing an independent and highly visible research programme.
The Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize, endowed with 7500 euros, has been awarded since 1936 to young university lecturers who are working at a German university or as a German at a foreign university, do not yet hold a W2/W3 or comparable position and have not yet reached the age of 40. 5000 euros of the prize money will go directly to the award winner and the remaining 2500 euros to the working group.
Juliane Simmchen, who was born in 1986, studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. After graduating in Analytical Chemistry in 2010, she completed her doctorate in Materials Science at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain in 2014. After stays at the MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, and at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she returned to the Technische Universität Dresden in 2016 as a research associate in the field of materials science. Since November 2016, she has been a Freigeist Fellow on the topic of 'Light driven microswimmers' in physical chemistry. Together with her working group, she is researching colloidal materials and strategies for activating them. They construct so-called micromotors: small-scale structures made of synthetic and biological building blocks that can move autonomously and also investigate how different environments, such as interfaces or applied stimuli, affect this movement.In addition, the ADUC is honouring three young scientists for establishing an independent field of research. Junior Professor Dr Max M. Hansmann, TU Dortmund University, receives an ADUC award for the development of synthetic approaches to unusual and highly reactive carbon compounds such as mesoionic N-heterocyclic olefins, diazoalkenes, triplet vinylidenes and electron-rich olefins as well as their comprehensive physical characterisation. Also honoured is Junior Professor Dr Kai S. Exner, University of Duisburg-Essen, for his original research in the field of theoretical electrocatalysis to improve electrode materials for electrocatalytic processes or batteries. And Christopher J. Teskey, PhD, RWTH Aachen University, receives an ADUC award for the development of light-switchable transition metal catalysts using the example of cobalt-mediated hydroborations, which enable stereoselective aldol reaction cascades and exhibit switchable chemoselectivity.
Further information on the conference can be found at www.gdch.de/cdt2022
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) is one of the largest chemical societies in the world with around 30,000 members. It has 27 specialist groups and awards numerous prizes for special achievements in chemical research. Every year, the GDCh's long-standing Association of German University Professors of Chemistry (ADUC) honours up to three young scientists (during their habilitation, fellowship or junior professorship) for establishing an independent field of research.
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A position paper from the mathematics and science societies in Wissenschaft-verbindet calls on politicians and school authorities to create qualified courses for teachers of mathematics and science subjects and to make it easier for them to take part in these courses during regular working hours.
Mathematical and scientific knowledge is more important than ever, and not just in light of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, science is highly dynamic. This must be taken into account in the further development of maths and science teaching in schools. High-quality further and advanced training for maths and science teachers is therefore an indispensable tool for the continuous improvement of teaching.
The five maths and science societies that have joined forces in Wissenschaft-verbindet - the Dachverband der Geowissenschaften (DVGeo), the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) and the Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland (VBIO) - are convinced.
The professional associations, which represent over 130,000 members across Germany, have now adopted a position paper on the further education and training of teachers. It calls on politicians and school authorities to promote and further develop appropriate programmes that meet the special needs of maths and science subjects. What is needed are subject-specific and didactic further training programmes as well as formats that combine both elements. Scientific progress and the current challenges of teaching development, e.g. in relation to digitalisation, must be taken into account.
Adequate financial and organisational support is essential for this. In particular, teachers must be given sufficient and uncomplicated time off from teaching for further education and training measures.The mathematical and scientific societies explicitly emphasise that further education and training should by no means be postponed to evenings or weekends, but should of course be part of the overall working hours.
The position paper can be found online at:
https://wissenschaft-verbindet.de/gemeinsame-aktivitaeten/download/positionspapier_fortbildungen.pdf
The five major mathematical and scientific societies - the German Geosciences Association (DVGeo), the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the German Physical Society (DPG), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO) - together represent over 130,000 members. We are united by the awareness that those working in science have a particularly high degree of responsibility for shaping human life as a whole.
Few physics experiments of the past 200 years have had as great an impact on science as the Stern-Gerlach experiment. This is why the German Physical Society, together with the Frankfurt Physical Society, the Department of Physics at Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Society of German Chemists, is celebrating the epoch-making discovery on 8 February 2022 in Frankfurt's Paulskirche. The approximately 90-minute ceremony will begin at 18:00. The public can follow the event via livestream.
With the measurement results from the night of 7 to 8 February 1922, physicists Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern succeeded for the first time in experimentally proving the quantisation of the inner structure of atoms and molecules in the Alte Physik (Robert-Mayer-Straße) in Frankfurt am Main. This historic experiment is one of the most important experiments in physics in the 20th century and also had a major influence on chemistry. Stern and Gerlach thus laid the foundation for modern quantum physics with many subsequent discoveries: nuclear spin processes, high-precision time measurement using atomic clocks, the maser and laser and much more.100 years after the successful realisation of this important experiment, the German Physical Society (DPG), the Frankfurt Physical Society, the Department of Physics at Frankfurt's Goethe University and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) are commemorating this historic moment with a 90-minute ceremony in Frankfurt's Paulskirche. The main elements of the ceremony are the lecture "The Stern-Gerlach Experiment - A Milestone in the History of Physics" by Prof Dr Horst Schmidt-Böcking from the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the lecture "Stern-Gerlach in the Modern Age - Precision Physics with Stored Ions" by Prof Dr Klaus Blaum, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and Vice President of the Chemical-Physical-Technical Section of the Max Planck Society. Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg will give the welcoming address. There will also be a dialogue discussion between Prof. Dr Dorothée Weber-Bruls, President of the Physikalischer Verein, and Dr Lutz Schröter, President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Registration for the event is still possible until 6 February at labedzke@dpg-physik.de. The event can also be followed live without registration at https://hvo.events/dpg/.
Background
Few physics experiments of the past 200 years have had such an impact on science as the Stern-Gerlach experiment. Using the molecular beam method developed by Otto Stern, he and Walther Gerlach succeeded in 1922 in building a measuring device with which they were able to examine the interior of atoms and later, with an improved version, even their nuclei and show that the building blocks of atoms do not behave according to the laws of classical physics. The molecular beam method used in the experiment was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943. Subsequently, around 45 other Nobel Prizes for physics or chemistry were based on these findings - including Nobel Prizes for the nuclear magnetic resonance method, for the development of the laser and for the atomic clock. Today, they are all established techniques that form the basis of all precision measurements.
A generally understandable explanation of the experiment and its scientific significance is provided by the DPG fact sheet Physikkonkret "100 years of the Stern-Gerlach experiment".The German Physical Society (DPG), whose tradition dates back to 1845, is the oldest national physics society in the world and, with around 55,000 members, also the one with the largest membership. As a non-profit organisation, it does not pursue any commercial interests. The DPG promotes the transfer of knowledge within the scientific community through conferences, events and publications and aims to open a window to physics for anyone who is curious. Special emphasis is placed on the promotion of young scientists and equal opportunities. The DPG is based in Bad Honnef on the Rhine. The capital representation is the Magnus-Haus Berlin.
Website: www.dpg-physik.de
With around 30,000 members, the German Chemical Society is one of the largest chemical societies in the world. It promotes scientific work, research and teaching as well as the exchange and dissemination of new scientific knowledge. The GDCh supports the creation of networks, transdisciplinary and international co-operation and continuous education and training in schools, universities and professional environments. The GDCh has 27 specialist groups and 60 local associations.
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