Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award

This award is given out to chemists doing stellar work developing new analytical methods that aim to improve the quality of human life.

The Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for achievements in analytical science has been awarded to internationally outstanding scientists since 1988.

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, grants the prize to mark the centennial of the first standardization of analytical methods in a book by Dr. Karl Krauch, a chemist at our company, entitled “The Testing of the Purity of Chemical Reagents”. The award was named for the man who set the original high standard for quality and purity, which shapes our company to this day.

“I shall always guarantee the purity of my preparations.”

Heinrich Emanuel Merck

Pioneer of pharmaceutical research and name giver for the award

Making life better

The award is intended for chemists up to the age of 45 whose work focuses on the development of new analytical methods and their applications aimed at improving the quality of human life, for example in areas such as environmental protection, life sciences, or material science.

How well recognized the award has become in the world of chemical analysis is documented, apart from the excellent qualifications of the jury itself, by the list of previous award winners:

Year	Name	University/company	Country	Distinguished project
2015	Prof. Petra Dittrich	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	Microfluidic analytical platforms
2012	Prof. Aaron R. Wheeler	University of Toronto	Canada	Droplet-scale estrogen assays in breast tissue
2010	Prof. Luisa Torsi	Bari University	Italy	Organic sensitivity-enhanced field-effect sensors for determination of chiral compounds
2007	Dr. Alexander Makarov	Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen	Germany	Performance evaluation of a hybrid linear ion trap/orbitrap mass spectrometer
2007	Prof. Dr. Shuming Nie	Emory University, Atlanta	USA	In vivo cancer targeting and imaging with semiconductor quantum dots
2004	Prof. Yoshinobu Baba	University of Tokushima	Japan	Nanospheres for DNA separation chips
2002	Prof. Jonathan V. Sweedler	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	USA	Measuring the peptides in individual organelles with mass spectrometry
2000	Prof. Norman Dovichi	University of Alberta	Canada	A multiple-capillary electrophoresis system for small-scale DNA sequencing and analysis
1998	Prof. Renato Zenobi	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
1996	Prof. D. Jed Harrison	University of Alberta	Canada	Micromachining a miniaturized capillary electrophore-based chemical analysis system on a chip
1996	Prof. Andreas Manz	Imperial College London	Great Britain	Micromachining a miniaturized capillary electrophore-based chemical analysis system on a chip
1993	Prof. Aviv Amirav	Tel Aviv University	Israel	Pulsed-flame photometer : a novel gas chromatography detector
1990	Dr. Bidlingmeyer	Millipore Corporation	USA	Liquid chromatography detectors
1990	Prof. Reinhard Nießner	Technical University of Munich	Germany	The photoelectric aerosol sensor array applied to heavy metal aerosols
1988	Prof. Masataka Hiraide	Nagoya University	Japan	Separation of trace elements from high-purity metals
1988	Prof. Otto S. Wolfbeis	Graz University	Austria	Fluorescence sensors

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