The Gmelin-Beilstein Medal is a prize of the

German Chemical Society The German Chemical Society (German: ', GDCh) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in che ...

for scientists and scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to the

history of chemistry The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC, civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry. Examples include the discovery of fire, e ...

, chemistry literature or chemical information. It is awarded with a silver medal and 7,500 euros in prize money and was first awarded in 1954 and donated by

Hoechst AG Hoechst AG () was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S.A. in 1999. With the new company's 2004 merger with Sanofi-Synthélabo, it became a subsidiary of the ...

. It is named after

Leopold Gmelin Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his ''Handbook of Chemistry'', which over successiv ...

and

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Бейльштейн) (17 February 183818 October 1906), was a Russian chemist and founder of the famous ''Handbuch der organischen Chemie'' (''Handbook of Organic Chemistry''). T ...

, who were known for their colossal handbooks.

Awarded

* 1954

Paul Walden Paul Walden ( lv, Pauls Valdens; russian: Павел Иванович Вальден; german: Paul von Walden; 26 July 1863 – 22 January 1957) was a Russian, Latvian and German chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of che ...

Maximilian Pflücke Maximilian, Maximillian or Maximiliaan (Maximilien in French) is a male given name. The name "Max (given name), Max" is considered a shortening of "Maximilian" as well as of several other names. List of people Monarchs *Maximilian I, Holy Roma ...

* 1956 Friedrich Richter * 1958 Wilhelm Foerst * 1962 Erich Pietsch * 1965 Jean Baptiste Gillis * 1966 Eduard Kreuzhage * 1973 Werner Schultheis * 1976 Hans Rudolf Christen * 1977 Günter Kresze * 1980 Margot Becke-Goehring * 1981 Fred A. Tate * 1983

Robert Fugmann The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

, Ernst Meyer * 1987 Jürgen Schaafhausen * 1988 Gerd M. Ahrenholz * 1990 Christian Weiske * 1991 Johann Gasteiger * 1995

Christoph Meinel Christoph Meinel (born April 14, 1954 in Meissen, Meißen, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor of Internet technologies and systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) of the University of Potsdam. In the years 2004 to 2023 he ...

* 2000 Peter Gölitz * 2002 Ursula Schoch-Grübler * 2005

Ute Deichmann Ute Deichmann is an historian of modern life sciences. She is adjunct full professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, where she was the founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences ...

* 2007

Olga Kennard Olga Kennard, Lady Burgen ( Weisz; born 23 March 1924) is a British scientist specialising in crystallography, and founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Her research focused on determining the structures of organic molecule ...

* 2010

Jürgen Gmehling Jürgen Gmehling (born January 13, 1946 in Duisburg) is a retired German professor of technical and industrial chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Biography His career started with an apprenticeship as a laboratory assi ...

* 2012 Engelbert Zaß * 2014 Henning Hopf * 2016 Joe P. Richmond * 2018 René Deplanque * 2020 Guillermo RestrepoGmelin-Beilstein Medal

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