Hermann Staudinger Prize

The Hermann Staudinger Prize is awarded by the German Chemical Society for groundbreaking work in the field of macromolecular chemistry and polymer science. It comes with a gold medal and a sum of money (currently 7500 euros). It is awarded in even-numbered years and is named after the Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Hermann Staudinger, who is the founder of the field.^[1] The prize started in 1970 through donation from BASF and the first prize was handed out in 1971.^[2]

Hermann Staudinger metal

Past recipients

• 1971 Werner Kern and Günter Victor Schulz
• 1973 Otto Bayer
• 1976 Hans Fikentscher
• 1977 Hermann Schnell
• 1979 Georg Manecke
• 1981 Hans Batzer
• 1985 Helmut Ringsdorf
• 1990 Gerhard Wegner
• 1994 Burkart Philipp
• 1997 Hansjörg Sinn^[3]
• 2000 Walter Hugo Stockmayer
• 2003 Walter Kaminsky
• 2006 Wolfgang Peter Meier^[4]
• 2009 Rolf Mülhaupt
• 2012 Axel Müller
• 2014 Martin Möller^[5]
• 2016 Klaus Müllen^[6]
• 2018 Brigitte Voit^[7]
• 2020 Markus Antonietti^[8]
• 2022 Bert Meijer^[9]
• 2024 Kurt Kremer