Albert Eschenmoser#


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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


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