Prof. Ben Feringa Awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ben Feringa is the Jacobus van ’t Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and an Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Prof. Sir David McMillan Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, Sir David McMillan is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
Prof. Jonas C. Peters Jonas Peters is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and Director of Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute. He has contributed to the development of catalysts and photocatalysts relevant to small molecule activation.
Prof. Serena DeBeer Serena DeBeer is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, where she heads the Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy. Her expertise lies in the application and development of X-ray based spectroscopic methods as probes of electronic structure in biological and chemical catalysis.
Prof. Christophe Coperet Christophe Coperet is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zürich. His scientific interest lies at the frontiers of molecular, material and surface chemistry, with the aims to design functional materials with applications in catalysis (sustainable chemistry and energy), molecular recognition, imaging and microelectronics.
Prof. Joseph M. DeSimone Awarded the 2020 Harvey Prize for significant contributions to materials science, chemistry, polymer science nano medicine, and 3D printing, Joseph DeSimone is the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine in the department of radiology at Stanford University, where he is also professor of chemical engineering.
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