The Emanuel Merck Lectureship was founded in 1992 by

Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmsta ...

and

Merck KGaA The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German Multinational corporation, multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and a presence in 66 countries. The group include ...

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
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Heinrich Emanuel Merck Heinrich Emanuel Merck (15 September 1794 – 14 February 1855) was an apothecary whose descendants are the founders of Merck and Company and Merck KGaA. Biography He was a direct descendant of company founder Friedrich Jacob Merck, who had pur ...

(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 – 18 April 1873) was a Germans, German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biology, biological chemistry; he is ...

Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler Royal Society of London, FRS(For) HonFRSE (; 31 July 180023 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements be ...

Max von Pettenkofer Max Joseph Pettenkofer, ennobled in 1883 as Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (3 December 1818 – 10 February 1901) was a Bavarian chemist and hygienist. He is known for his work in practical hygiene, as an apostle of good water, fresh air and proper ...

and

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

. 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 Albert Jakob Eschenmoser (5 August 1925 – 14 July 2023) was a Swiss organic chemist, best known for his work on the synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural compounds, most notably vitamin B12. In addition to his significant contributions to ...

– ETH Zürich *1994 Kenneth Wade – University of Durham *1995

Jean-Marie Lehn Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramo ...

– University of Straßburg ( 1987) *1996

Manfred Eigen Manfred Eigen (; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions. Eigen's research helped solve major problems in physical chemistry and ...

– 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 Stuart Schreiber (born February 6, 1956) is an American chemist who is the Morris Loeb Research Professor at Harvard University, a co-founder of the Broad Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Emeritus, and a member of the Nat ...

– Harvard University, Cambridge *2003 Samuel J. Danishefsky – Columbia University, New York *2005

George M. Whitesides George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecula ...

– Harvard University Cambridge *2007 Sir Harold W. Kroto – University of Sussex, Brighton ( 1996) *2009

Axel Ullrich Axel Ullrich (born 19 October 1943) is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. This department's research has pri ...

– Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried *2011

Carolyn R. Bertozzi Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term " bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with ...

– University of California, Berkeley ( 2022) *2013 Frances H. Arnold – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena ( 2018) *2015

Paul Anastas Paul T. Anastas (born May 16, 1962, in Quincy, Massachusetts)David E. Newton''Chemistry of the Environment.''Infobase Publishing, 2009, , p. 185. is an American scientist, inventor, author, entrepreneur, professor, and public servant. He is ...

– Yale University, New Haven *2017

Phil Baran Phil S. Baran (born August 10, 1977) is a synthetic organic chemist and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute.Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wit ...

– University of California Berkeley, California ( 2020) *2019

Susumu Kitagawa ForMemRS is a Japanese chemist working in the field of coordination chemistry, with specific focus on the chemistry of organic–inorganic hybrid compounds, as well as chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers and metal- ...

– 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 *2024 Craig M. Crews – Yale University, New Haven

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