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The Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy has awarded an honorary doctorate to Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy, Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in recognition of his achievements.

And for a seat! In the packed Lecture Hall B, Benjamin List, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and winner of the 2026 Siegfried Hünig Lecture, took the more than 200 attendees on an exciting journey.

Frank Würthner, a professor of chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives the Izatt-Christensen Award, the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

Highly renowned guest at the University of Würzburg: Chemistry professor Makoto Fujita from Tokyo joins Professor Frank Würthner's team as a Humboldt Research Award winner.

The Dr Reich Scholarship for JMU students writing their Master's thesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, established in 2025, was awarded to Alexander Bausback.

A sophisticated process stacks dye molecules in such a way that their luminosity increases significantly as their size grows – a significant step forward for the electronics of tomorrow.

For her pioneering work on catalytic nucleic acids, the Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has been awarded the Albrecht Kossel Prize by the German Chemical Society.

Niyas Mundakkamattathil Abdul Salam, former PhD student at the Würzburg Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, received one of the two PhD awards in memory of Carsten Schmuck at SupraChem 2026.

The MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 2025 of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) went to Jiarong Wu, who obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy in Würzburg, Germany. A novelty in the history of this prestigious award.

Dr. Martin Volek was awarded the prestigious "Česká hlava" ("Czech Brain") prize, which he received at a gala broadcast on Czech television.

Hannes Keiling won the first prize of 12,000 euros at the Mexican Science Day in Berlin and can now start planning a scientific workshop in Mexico.