Vol. 78 No. 7-8 (2024): SCS Major Awards / SCS Fall Meeting 2024
Each year the Swiss Chemical Society awards prizes to excellent chemical scientists active in the Swiss chemical community. The prize winners are invited to write an article for CHIMIA describing their award-winning work. Dr. Eric Eichhorn and Dr. Fridtjof Schroeder et. al. received the Sandmeyer Award 2023 for their work on sustainable (-)-Ambrox production. The Distinguished Senior Industrial Science Award 2023 was given to Alain De Mesmaeker who summarises, in his article, some of the aspects of his research over the years. Dr. Robin A. Fairhurst received the Senior Industrial Science Award 2023 for his work on the β2-adrenoceptor receptor. The Industrial Science Awards 2023 were awarded to Dr. Uwe Grether and his team for their work on the endocannabinoid system and to Dr. Tomas Smejkal and his team for their work on Ir-catalysed C-H borylation. The Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize 2023 was awarded to Dr. Lea Nienhaus for her work on exploring sensitized photon upconversion. Dr. Michael A. Stravs was awarded the METAS Award 2023 for his work on computational mass spectrometry from references spectra to deep learning.
This issue also contains the program and information about the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, September 5th, 2024.