The Emanuel Merck Lectureship was founded in 1992 by Technische Universität Darmstadt and Merck KGaA located in Darmstadt, Germany. The lectureship aspires to enlighten scientists and students at Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as Merck KGaA employees and interested public with leading scientific research in chemistry.Merck Group
/ref> The award honors Heinrich Emanuel Merck (1794–1855) the founder of Merck, an entrepreneur, an original experimenter and a successful scientist. Emanuel Merck maintained membership in many scientific associations and held many personal relationships with leading researchers of his era, including

Justus von Liebig Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at t ...

Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler () FRS(For) HonFRSE (31 July 180023 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the firs ...

, Max von Pettenkofer and

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...

. The Emanuel Merck Lectureship attempts to continue this tradition of international exchange between researchers. The lectures are held over multiple days. The lectures include lectures that are open to the public, lectures for a closed audience and seminars for students. The invitation includes travel and a cash prize (€30,000) for speakers.

Awardees

List of previous awardees ( indicates Nobel Prize recipients): *1993 Albert Eschenmoser – ETH Zürich *1994 Kenneth Wade – University of Durham *1995 Jean-Marie Lehn – University of Straßburg ( 1987) *1996 Manfred Eigen – MPI Göttingen ( 1967) *1998

Jean-Pierre Changeux Jean-Pierre Changeux (; born 6 April 1936) is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (with a focus on the allosteric proteins), to the early development of the ner ...

– Institut Pasteur, Paris *2000 Stuart Schreiber – Harvard University, Cambridge *2003 Samuel J. Danishefsky – Columbia University, New York *2005 George M. Whitesides – Harvard University Cambridge *2007 Sir

Harold W. Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of ...

– University of Sussex, Brighton ( 1996) *2009 Axel Ullrich – Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried *2011 Carolyn R. Bertozzi – University of California, Berkeley ( 2022) *2013

Frances H. Arnold Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In ...

– California Institute of Technology, Pasadena ( 2018) *2015 Paul Anastas – Yale University, New Haven *2017 Phil Baran – Scripps Research Institute, San Diego *2018 Jennifer Doudna – University of California Berkeley, California ( 2020) *2019 Susumu Kitagawa – Kyoto University, Kyoto *2022

John F. Hartwig John F. Hartwig is an American organometallic chemist who holds the position of Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory traditionally focuses on developing transition metal-catalyzed reacti ...

– University of California Berkeley, California

References

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