Frank Würthner (Image: Ingo Peters / Universität Würzburg)
Frank Würthner, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives a highly renowned prize: He is awarded the Adolf von Baeyer Medal. "With your work, you have transferred dye chemistry to modern times." This praise, expressed by the President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), goes to Professor Frank Würthner, Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. The GDCh awards Würthner for his outstanding work in the field of supramolecular polymers, particularly based on dye aggregates and their application as organic molecular semiconductors. Würthner will be presented the Adolf von Baeyer Medal at the GDCh Science Forum in Aachen in September 2019. The GDCh is the largest chemical society in Europe with members from academe, education, industry, and other areas. Adolf von Baeyer (1835 - 1917) is one of the most important chemists of his time. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the synthesis of the blue dye Indigo, which was very difficult to obtain from plants in previous times.
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