Hermann Staudinger Prize
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The Hermann Staudinger Prize is awarded by the German Chemical Society for groundbreaking work in the field of macromolecular chemistry and polymer science. It comes with a gold medal and a sum of money (currently 7500 euros). It is awarded in even-numbered years and is named after the Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Hermann Staudinger, who is the founder of the field.[1] The prize started in 1970 through donation from BASF and the first prize was handed out in 1971.[2]
Past recipients
- 1971 Werner Kern and Günter Victor Schulz
- 1973 Otto Bayer
- 1976 Hans Fikentscher
- 1977 Hermann Schnell
- 1979 Georg Manecke
- 1981 Hans Batzer
- 1985 Helmut Ringsdorf
- 1990 Gerhard Wegner
- 1994 Burkart Philipp
- 1997 Hansjörg Sinn[3]
- 2000 Walter Hugo Stockmayer
- 2003 Walter Kaminsky
- 2006 Wolfgang Peter Meier[4]
- 2009 Rolf Mülhaupt
- 2012 Axel Müller
- 2014 Martin Möller[5]
- 2016 Klaus Müllen[6]
- 2018 Brigitte Voit[7]
- 2020 Markus Antonietti[8]
- 2022 Bert Meijer[9]
- 2024 Kurt Kremer