The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award is a prize for "outstanding achievements" in the field of analytical

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...

. It has been awarded since 1990 by the German Working Group for Applied Spectroscopy, and is endowed with by

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, Germany. The prize is named in honor of chemist

Robert Bunsen Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (; 30 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bu ...

and physicist

Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coine ...

Prizewinners

*1990 Günter Snatzke, Germany *1991 Hannes Aiginger, Austria; Peter Wobrauschek, Austria; Joachim Knoth, Germany; Heinrich Schwenke, Germany *1992 Kurt Laqua, Germany; Arnulf Röseler, Germany *1993 Boris L'vov, Russia *1994 D. Bruce Chase, United States; W. J. Orville-Thomas, Great Britain *1995 Paul W.J.M. Boumans, Netherlands *1998

Annemie Bogaerts Annemie Bogaerts (born 25 October 1971) is a Belgian chemist known for her work in plasma chemistry, plasma-based green chemistry, which include amongst others CO2 conversion, CH4 conversion for H2 synthesis or the synthesis of hydrocarbons and ...

, Belgium *2000 Dieter Fischer, Germany *2001 John A. McLean, United States *2002 Jürgen Popp, Germany *2003 Sergei Boulyga, Germany *2004 Ewa Bulska, Poland *2005 Nicolas Bings, Germany *2006 Volker Deckert, Germany *2007 Jörg Bettmer, Germany *2008 Sebastian Schlücke, Germany *2009 Joachim Koch, Switzerland *2010

Janina Kneipp Janina Kneipp is a German scientist who is Professor of Physical Chemistry Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research considers surface enhanced Raman scattering and plasmonic enhancement in multi-modal micro spectroscopy. Early life and educat ...

, Germany *2011 Daniel Pröfrock, Germany *2012 Christoph Haisch, Germany *2013 Maria Montes-Bayón, Spain *2014 Oliver Reich, Germany *2015 Martín Resano, Spain *2016 Torsten Frosch, Germany *2017 Jacob T. Shelley, United States *2018 , Hungary *2020 Natalia P. Ivleva *2022 Carlos Abad Andrade

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Prizewinners

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