Please find links to awards accepting nominations listed below – last update July 3, 2025
GDCh Awards
All awards of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) are highly regarded in the national and international scientific community.
- Albrecht Kossel Prize – Biochemistry: €7,500, certificate
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann Memorial Medal – All areas of chemistry, awarded to individuals outside Germany: certificate, medal
- Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize – Early-career academics in chemistry: €7,500 (€2,500 for the research group), certificate
- Carl Roth Promotion Prize – Resource-efficient synthesis methods or innovative applications of chemicals: €5,000, €3,000 voucher, certificate
- Emil Fischer Medal – Organic chemistry: €7,500, certificate, medal
- Erich Hückel Prize – Theoretical chemistry: €7,500, certificate
- GDCh Prize for Biocatalysis – Doctoral award: €2,000, certificate
- GDCh Prize for Journalism and Literature – Journalistic or literary achievements: €7,500, certificate
- Gmelin-Beilstein Memorial Medal – Chemical literature, chemical information, or history of chemistry: €7,500, certificate, medal
- Hermann Staudinger Prize – Macromolecular chemistry: €7,500, certificate, medal
- Liebig Memorial Medal – All areas of chemistry: €7,500, certificate, medal
- Marianne Baudler Prize – Inorganic chemistry: €7,500, certificate
◷ Due date for nominations: September 15, 2025 submit via www.gdch.de/nominations
Paracelsus Prize
The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) award recognizes outstanding scientific research in the field of chemistry at an international level. Winners are chosen irrespective of nationality. SCS membership is not a requirement. The prize consists of CHF 20’000 and a medal in gold.
◷ Due date for nominations and applications: September 30, 2025
Reticular Science Prize 2026
Sponsored by Atoco
The award, established by Atoco (founded by Omar Yaghi, Berkeley, USA), is a biennial international award recognizing outstanding research in reticular materials and their broad potential applications. The prize includes US$5,000, a certificate, and a 50-gram gold medal.
The 2026 Prize will be awarded at the MOF-2026 conference in New Orleans, USA, where the recipient will give a lecture on their work.
◷ Due date for nominations: October 1, 2025
Nominations will open soon.
Future Insight™ Prize 2026
Sponsored by Merck KGaA
The award aims to stimulate innovative solutions to solve some of humanities greatest problems and to realize the dreams for a better tomorrow in the areas of health, nutrition, and energy. The EUR 1,000,000 prize is being awarded in 2026 to pioneers in the field of preventive medicine/early intervention – Smart Health Sensor.
Regenerative medicine deals with the “process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human or animal cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function”.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 31, 2025
EurJIC-Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026
Sponsored by Chemistry Europe
The award of the Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie (Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry), a division of the GDCh (German Chemical Society), and the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (EurJIC) honors a young scientist of any nationality who has completed a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry for an excellent scientific publication in a field within inorganic chemistry. The selected paper, in which the candidate appears as correspondence author, should have been published within two years before the nomination. The nominee will be an independent researcher, but not yet in an established academic or industrial position.
Eligible for nomination are researchers in industry or academia with responsibility in an appropriate field. The prize is endowed with EUR 1500 and a lecture at the GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry.
◷ Due date for nominations: March 30, 2026
E-mail to Nicole Bürger, GDCh: [email protected]
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