August Wilhelm von Hofmann Memorial Medal
Professor Dr. David A. Leigh, University of Manchester, UK, is the awardee of the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Commemorative Medal 2024. The GDCh honours Leigh’s pioneering achievements in the field of nanoscience, including the development of artificial molecular machines and molecular knots, as well as the introduction of innovative concepts for controlling molecular movements.
| 2024 | David A. Leigh, University of Manchester, UK |
| 2022 | Paul T. Anastas, Yale University, New Haven/USA John C. Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington/USA |
| 2020 | Omar Yaghi, Berkeley CA/USA |
| 2018 | Michael Grätzel, Lausanne/Switzerland |
| 2016 | Ben Feringa, Groningen/Netherlands |
| 2014 | Barry Trost, Stanford/USA |
| 2012 | Sason Shaik, Jerusalem/Israel Martin Quack, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2010 | Chintamani N. R. Rao, Bangalore/India |
| 2008 | Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, La Jolla/USA |
| 2006 | François Diederich, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2005 | Robert H. Grubbs, Pasadena/USA Richard R. Schrock, Cambridge/USA |
| 2003 | Dieter Seebach, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2001 | Steven V. Ley, Cambridge/UK |
| 1999 | Lord Jack Lewis of Newnham, Cambridge/UK |
| 1997 | Charles Weissman, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1995 | Joshua Jortner, Tel Aviv/Israel |
| 1992 | Sir Alan R. Battersby, Cambridge/UK |
| 1991 | Henri B. Kagan, Sorbonne/France |
| 1988 | Jack Halpern, Chicago/USA |
| 1985 | George C. Pimentel, Berkeley/USA |
| 1983 | David Ginsburg, Haifa/Israel |
| 1981 | Tetsuo Nozoe, Sendai/Japan |
| 1978 | Paul Hagenmüller, Bordeaux/France |
| 1976 | Albert Eschenmoser, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1974 | Edgar Heilbronner, Basel/Switzerland |
| 1970 | Costin D. Nenitzescu, Bucharest/Romania |
| 1967 | Viktor N. Kondratiev, Moscow/Russia Sir Lawrence Bragg, London/UK Vladimir Prelog, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 1964 | Edgar Lederer. Gif-sur-Yvette/France |
| 1962 | Paul D. Bartlett, Cambridge/USA William von Eggers-Doering, New Haven/USA |
| 1957 | Sir Robert Robinson, Oxford/UK |
| 1955 | Arne W. K. Tiselius, Uppsala/Sweden |
| 1953 | Roger Adams, Urbana/USA Emilio Segré, Berkeley/USA |
| 1942 | Adolf Butenandt, Berlin Paul Walden, Rostock |
| 1941 | Gustav Komppa, Helsinki/Finland Hermann Rein, Göttingen |
| 1940 | Max Samec, Ljubljana/Slovenia Géza Zemplén, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1939 | Albert Szent-Györgyi, Budapest/Hungary |
| 1938 | Giovanni Battista Bonino, Bologna/Italy Pierre Jolibois, Paris/France |
| 1937 | Franz Fischer, Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr |
| 1936 | Max Bodenstein, Berlin |
| 1927 | Franz Oppenheim, Berlin |
| 1924 | Bernhard Lepsius, Berlin |
| 1921 | Carl Duisberg, Leverkusen |
| 1906 | Sir William Henry Perkin, London/UK |
| 1903 | Henri Moissan, Paris/France Sir William Ramsay, London/UK |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich (lead responsibility)
Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andrea Rentmeister, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler, Technische Universität München (Federführung)
Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andrea Rentmeister, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen