Albert Eschenmoser#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 26 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Albert Eschenmoser passed away July 14, 2023.
Positions Held
- 1996 - 2009 Professor 'Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology' at the SCRIPPS Research Institute, La Jolla/CA, USA
- 1992 Professor emerit. ETH
- 1965 o. Professor for General Organic Chemistry, ETH
- 1960 a.o. Professor, Organic Chemistry, ETH
Fields of Scholarship
- Organic chemistry
Honours and Awards
- Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
- 2012 University of Innsbruck (Austria).
- 2008 Paul Karrer Medal (University of Zurich)
- 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 2004 Frank H. Westheimer Medal (Harvard University)
- 2002 Oparin Medal
- 2000 Scripps Research Institute (USA)
- 1996 University of Chicago (USA)
- 1996 Honorary doctorates (Dr. hc) from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
- 1993 Harvard University (USA)
- 1991 Louis Pasteur University (France)
- 1990 Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1989 University of Bologna (Italy)
- 1986 Wolf Prize of the Wolf Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1981 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry
- 1979 University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
- 1978 Davy Medal
- 1974 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
- 1966 Ernest Guenther Award
- 1958 Ruzicka Prize of the ETH Zurich
- 1949 Core Prize of the ETH Zurich
