The Foundation

Prof. Dr. Melanie Schnell (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg) was awarded for her outstanding studies of structural changes in water complexes with increasing amounts of water molecules as well as for her pioneering investigations of enantiomers and the separation of these chirally different molecules.

Prof. Dr. Schlemmer (University of Cologne) received the prize for his pioneering high-resolution spectroscopic studies of molecular ions by light-induced reactions in ion traps especially for his spectroscopic investigation of the highly flexible methanium ion CH₅⁺, which plays a key role in chemistry and in the astrophysical exploration in space.

Prof. Dr. Anatoly A. Ischenko, Russian Technological University (Moscow), Russia was awarded for his pioneering contributions to the time-resolved electron diffraction.

Prof. Dr. Alberto Lesarri, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, and Prof. Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Bilbao), Spain, were awarded for their studies on conformers and precise molecular structures of aminoacids, sugars, alkaloids, anestics and nicotinoids.

Prof. Dr. Micheal C. McCarthy, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, was awarded for his microwave spectroscopic investigations of reactive molecular species, especially for his studies of molecular cations and anions.

Prof. Dr. Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada was awarded for her investigations of conformers by means of microwave and high-resolution infrared spectroscopy, especially for the spectroscopic characterization of chiral recognition.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jäger, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, was awarded for his investigations of doted hydrogen clusters and small molecules in suprafluid helium nano-droplets by microwave and high-resolution infrared spectroscopy (see also: ChemPhysChem)

Prof. Dr. Lev. V. Vilkov, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Prof. Dr. Georgiy V. Girichev, Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia.

Prof. Dr. Vilkov was posthumously awarded for his pioneering studies and his investigations of structural chemical variations in numerous organic substance classes.

Prof. Dr. Girichev was awarded for his stucture determinations of inorganic and organometallic compounds by the joined use of gas-phase electron diffraction and mass spectrometry especially at high temperatures.

Prof. Dr. James E. Boggs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA and professor doctor Harald Møllendal, University of Oslo, Norway (see also: ChemPhysChem).
Prof. Dr. Boggs was awarded for his structure determinations of conformers, for the best combination of experimental and theoretical equilibrium potentials of small molecules as well as for the organization of the “Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure”, which he organized for 44 years.

Prof. Dr. Møllendal was awarded for his quantum-mechanically supported microwave spectroscopic investigations, for his structure determinations of conformers especially for the intramolecular hydrogen-bonds and his contributions to astrochemistry.

Privat lecturer Dr. Jens-Uwe Grabow, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Germany, was awarded for his numerous contributions to the technical improvement of the Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy as well as for his investigations of molecular structures, nuclear quadrupole, and magnetic hyperfine interactions (see also: ChemPhysChem).

Dr. Jean Demaison, Universite de Sciences et de Technologies de Lille Flandres Artois, France, was awarded for his contributions to the determination of precise equilibrium structures by the combination of experimental data from the high-resolution molecular spectroscopy in the microwave, millimeterwave and infrared region with quantum-mechanical calculations.

Prof. Dr. David W. H. Rankin, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, was awarded for his structure determinations of unusual compounds such as polyhedral boranes and carboranes, sterically crowded silicon compounds, precursors of solid-state materials, aromatic heterocycles, and organometallic compounds.

Prof. Dr. Kozo Kuchitsu, Graduate School of BASE, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, was awarded for his contributions to the theory of the structure determination by gas-phase electron diffraction and high-resolution molecular spectroscopy.

Prof. Dr. Lawrence S. Bartell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) was awarded for his outstanding contributions to various aspects in the theory of gas-phase electron diffraction (among others for the introduction of the vibrational anharmonicity in the structure analysis).

Prof. Dr. Victor P. Spiridonov, Moscow State University (Russia) was posthumously awarded for his innovative contributions to the molecular structure determinations in terms of the potential energy function parameters from the gas-phase electron diffraction.