The Société Chimique de France (SCF, French Chemical Society) has awarded its national and bi-national awards for 2012. Chemists from Germany and Spain were honored in bi-national awards that also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is reflected in the titles of the awards.
The awards were presented at a prize symposium at l’École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Mulhouse, France, on May 27, 2013, where each of the prize winners delivered a prize lecture.
Receiving awards were:
Bi-national Prizes
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French-German Prize Georg Wittig – Victor Grignard(Prix franco-allemand Georg Wittig – Victor Grignard) Professor Klaus Müllen, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, was awarded for his outstanding contribution to various fields of chemistry, including molecular and polymeric materials.
His research focuses on new polymer-forming reactions for multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures and functional polymeric networks. He also studies materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices and materials for lithium or hydrogen storage. |
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French-Spanish Prize Miguel Catalán – Paul Sabatier(Prix franco-espagnol Miguel Catalán – Paul Sabatier) Professor Santiago Alvarez Reverter, University of Barcelona, Spain, was awarded for his remarkable work in theoretical chemistry and the introduction of new concepts in coordination chemistry, as well as for his many collaborations with French chemists.
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Joseph-Achille Le Bel PrizeProfessor Samir Zard, Director of research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, National Centre for Scientific Research) and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, for his contributions to organic synthesis and discoveries in the field of radical polymerization which have had strong extensions in industry.
His research interests include the development and mechanistic study of new and synthetically useful reactions and processes, with a special interest in radicals, organosulfur derivatives, alkynes, and nitro compounds. |
Pierre Süe PrizeProfessor Lahcene Ouahab, Director of research at CNRS, was awarded for his contributions to the chemistry of molecular materials, for his actions to the community of chemists, and for promoting closer Franco–Japanese collaboration. and Professor Philippe Sautet, Ecole Normale Suprérieure Lyon, France, was awarded for his major contributions to theoretical chemistry and catalysis and for his strong and dynamic involvement in the service of chemistry in Lyon. |
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Lahcene Ouahab gained his doctorate from the University of Rennes, France, and was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Constantine, Algeria, in 1978. He returned to the University of Rennes in 1987 as Associate Professor. He joined the CNRS in 1989 as a Researcher and took up his current position as Director of Research in 1998. His research interests include multifunctional inorganic materials, charge transfer complexes, radical ion salts, organic-inorganic hybrids, polymeric coordination complexes, and polyoxometallates. |
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Philippe Sautet gained his Ph.D. from Paris-Orsey University, France, in 1989. He was a research associate at the CNRS Institute of Catalysis Research, Villeurbanne, France, from 1988–1995. He became Director of Research there in 1995 and Director of the Laboratoire de Chemie at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in 2003. His research centers on modeling elementary steps of heterogeneous catalysis and electronic structure at the solid-gas interface, as well as DFT studies of reactions of molecules at surfaces and on metal complexes. |
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