Manchot Research Professorships

The Jürgen Manchot Foundation annually awards the Wilhelm Manchot Research Professorship to outstanding chemists. In addition to recognizing the recipient's scientific work, the foundation facilitates the recipient's teaching activities at the Chemistry Department of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The award commemorates the chemist Wilhelm Manchot (1869 – 1945), who served as a professor and director of the Inorganic Chemistry Institute at the former Technical University of Munich from 1914 to 1935. His contributions as an educator were also remarkable. He translated the well-known inorganic chemistry standard work, known to every student as 'Hollemann-Wiberg,' into German, a translation that remains in use to this day.

1991: Prof. Olivier Kahn, Université de Paris-Sud, Frankreich
1992: Prof. John P. Fackler, Jr., Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
1993: Prof. Robin K. Harris, University of Durham, England
1994: Prof. Walter G. Klemperer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
1995: Prof. D. Michael P. Mingos, Imperial College, London, England
1996: Prof. Joel S. Miller, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
1997: Prof. Robert M. Waymouth, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
1998: Prof. Masato Tanaka, National Institute of Research, Tsukuba, Japan
1999: Prof. Michael R. Zalutsky, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
2000: Prof. Konrad Seppelt, FU Berlin
2001: Prof. Jochen Stark, Bauhaus - Universität, Weimar
2002/03: Prof. Andreas Pfaltz, Universität Basel, Schweiz
2003/04: Prof. Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2004/05: Prof. Abraham Nitzan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2006: Prof. Achim Müller, Universität Bielefeld
2008/09: Prof. Sir John M. Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK
2009: Prof. Sir Alain R. Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK
2010: Prof. Tobin Marks, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
2011: Prof. Herbert Waldmann, Max-Planck-Institut, Dortmund
2012: Prof. Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin
2013: Prof. James A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
2014: Prof. Christian Hertweck, Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie, Jena
2015: Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
2016: Prof. Dr. Nenad M. Marković, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
2017: Prof. Phil S. Baran, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
2018/19: Prof. Dr. Silvia Bordiga,University of Turin, Italien; Prof. Dr. Unni Olsbye, University of Oslo (UiO), Norwegen
2020: Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig, Universität Würzburg, Deutschland
2021/22: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Véronique Gouverneur, Universität Oxford, UK