Please find links to awards accepting nominations listed below – last update May 7, 2025
Primo Levi Award
The SCI and GDCh award honores chemists who advance human rights, ethical responsibility, and the societal role of chemistry. The prize is named after the Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.
◷ Due date for nominations: May 31, 2025
Mario Markus Prize for Ludic Science
The GDCh award honores outstanding scientific work in the field of natural science that is “playful”; . The term “playful” is used here to designate discoveries that arose from research that was undertaken not with any specific application in mind but simply out of curiosity about the natural world. The prize, which has a value of € 10 000 plus travel expenses, will be awarded at a scientific conference.
◷ Due date for nominations: May 31, 2025
Martha Schwarzkopf Award for Women in Science
Henkel
The Martha Schwarzkopf Award recognizes female researchers in natural/material sciences, biotechnology, mechanical engineering, computer science, or medicine, with a focus on hair research, textile and wool fibers, and related materials interactions. The Emerging Talent Award is for female researchers with a completed master’s degree, currently pursuing a Ph.D. or early postdoctoral work (under 10 years in the field). The main prize consists of 10,000 euros, while the award-winner for emerging talent will receive 5,000 euros. The global winners will also receive a trip to the awards ceremony and accompanying scientific conference in early 2026.
◷ Due date for nominations: June 1, 2025 E-mail to [email protected]
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
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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