Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize
The Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck Prize is a prize of €15,000 awarded by the Merck Group in the name of Heinrich Emanuel Merck. From 1988 to 2022 the award recognised excellence in analytical chemistry; since 2025 it has instead focused on developments in the computational sciences.[1]
Recipients
- 1988 Masataka Hiraide (University of Nagoya/Japan) and Otto S. Wolfbeis (Universität Graz/Austria)
- 1990 Brian A. Bidlingmeyer (Millipore Corporation/USA) and Reinhard Nießner (Technische Universität München/Germany)
- 1993 Aviv Amirav (Tel Aviv University/Israel)
- 1996 D. Jed Harrison (University of Alberta/Canada) and Andreas Manz (Imperial College London/UK)
- 1998 Renato Zenobi (ETH Zürich/Switzerland)
- 2000 Norman J. Dovich (University of Alberta/Canada)
- 2002 Jonathan V. Sweedler (University of Illinois/USA)
- 2004 Yoshinobu Baba (Tokushima University/Japan)
- 2007 Alexander A. Makarov (Thermo Electron/Germany) and Shuming Nie (Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology/USA)
- 2010 Luisa Torsi (University of Bari/Italy)
- 2012 Aaron Wheeler (University of Toronto/Canada)
- 2015 Petra S. Dittrich (ETH Zürich/Switzerland)
- 2017 Francesco Ricci (University of Tor Vergata/Italy)
- 2019 David Alsteens (Université catholique de Louvain/Belgium)
- 2022 Valérie Gabelica (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médical/France)
- 2025 Alán Aspuru-Guzik (University of Toronto/Canada)
References
- ^ "Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award". English Home. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.