🎁Happy 60th birthday, Peter Schreiner! With the spectacular synthesis of “impossible” #hexanitrogen (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09032-9) he basically gave himself the perfect present. #OrganicChemistry #MatrixIsolation #Organocatalysis #ComputationalChemistry

🎁HBT Paul Knochel (LMU Munich), who turns 70 today—unbelievable knowing his charming boyish appeal. Developing new synthetic methods, in particular based on organometallic compounds, and applying them in the #TotalSynthesis of natural products has become a hallmark of the Knochel group.

🎁Happy 90th, Prof. Herbert W. Roesky! PhD ’63 at Goettingen Univ. (with Oskar Glemser); postdoc with Earl Muetterties at DuPont; habilitation ’67; professor in Frankfurt ’71; back to Göttingen ’80. A pioneer across main-group & transition-metal chemistry—still publishing (Chem. Commun. 2025 on Si/Ge). Known for spectacular lecture demos and for the Christel & Herbert W. Roesky Foundation. GDCh Honorary Member since 2021.

📅🧪Today on 30 October 2025, 4 p.m. @unibielefeld:
#WomenInChemistry—Empowering Passionate Scientists Colloquium
An event dedicated to honoring the achievements, challenges, and aspirations of women in chemistry, with https://l-i-c.org/1137 Katharina Kohse-Hoeinghaus
Event info: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/chemie/aktuell/womeninchemistry/

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
Susumu Kitagawa (Japan), Richard Robson (Australia) and Omar M. Yaghi (USA) have been awarded for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
Congratulations!!
https://www.chemistryviews.org/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2025/

🕮At the OMCOS XXII Conference in Kyoto #OMCOSXXII #OMCOS22, on Monday just two days before his 87th birthday today, #NobelLaureate Ryoji Noyori received a Certificate to honor him for writing his scientific autobiography https://l-i-c.org/1135 “Research Should be Fresh, Simple, and Clear”.

🎁Albert Eschenmoser would have turned 100 today. He passed away on July 14, 2023, after a long and successful journey through the wonderlands of organic chemistry—that he described in his characteristic style in the recently published autobiography l-i-c.org/1136

🏆On July 31, the birthday of Primo Levi, it was announced that Jean-Marie Lehn will receive the Primo Levi Award. Presented by the German Chemical Society GDCh, the Italian SCI, and the International Center for Primo Levi Studies in Torino, this award will be conferred to Lehn on December 3 in Rome.

🏆🧪📅With a ceremonial farewell on July 11th, 2025, Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus is being honored at Bielefeld University—where she has been a full professor of Physical Chemistry since 1994.
https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/chemie/entry/save-the-date-ndash-50
#womeninchemistry #womeninscience #WomenInSTEM

🎁Ferdi Schüth turned 65 yesterday—congratulations. He is famous for his work on #heterogeneous #catalysis that earned him earlier this year the Alwin Mittasch Medal. He was a pioneer in the high-throughput design and synthesis of catalysts and porous materials, not the least those useful for energy conversion. His recent contributions to mechanocatalysis including a new ammonia synthesis are stunning and brought him another ERC Grant.

🎁Harald Günther turns 90 today—happy birthday! Generations of students used his textbook “#NMR #Spectroscopy—Basic Principles, Concepts and Applications in Chemistry” the most recent edition of which was published by Wiley-VCH in 2013. It first appeared in 1973 and later in several languages. An early PhD student of Günther was Klaus Müllen whose autobiography “The Chemistry Got to be Right” l-i-c.org/1139 will appear in August as volume 15 of the “Lives in Chemistry” series.

🎁Luis Oro turns 80 today. He is a hero in coordination and organometallic chemistry as well as in homogeneous catalysis research. He dealt with mechanistic foundations of the fields as well as with applications in organic synthesis, green chemistry, and CO₂ fixation.

🕮The joy of reading is at the heart of the #WorldBookDay celebrated today. The Lives in Chemistry l-i-c.org autobiographies make excellent reading not the least because the series has been awarded a Gold Medal for outstanding book design l-i-c.org/awards.

The Chinese Chemical Society has elected eleven new Honorary Fellows https://www.chinesechemsoc.org/do/10.5555/00549491-2208-432e-9383-c821b9feeeb8/full/ among them Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (Bielefeld Univ.) whose autobiography “Burning for Science—A Woman in a Technical Field” https://l-i-c.org/1137 was recently published as volume 11 in the series “Lives in Chemistry” l-i-c.org and the first of a female chemist.
#womeninchemistry #womeninscience #womeninSTEM

🌻In memory of Franz Effenberger https://l-i-c.org/1130 who would have turned 95 today a symposium was held at the University of Stuttgart uni that he was affiliated with in manifold for more than 70 years.
https://www.f03.uni-stuttgart.de/fakultaet/gedenkfeier-effenberger/

👩‍🔬📚 Today is #GirlsDay 2025! We were all little girls—and a lot of boys—before diving into the world of molecules. Find out how it all began for Katharina and Sigrid https://l-i-c.org

👋Farewell news from the Bunsen-Tagung 2025 “Physical Chemistry of the Climate and the Atmosphere” in Leipzig.
The sun was shining—“the atmosphere was with us”! The conference was booming with nearly 400 attendees—huge thanks to all organizers!

The Carl Duisberg Badge was awarded today at the Chemiedozententagung in Braunschweig to Karl Reuter. Stefanie Dehnen, President of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), highlighted that this award honors individuals who have rendered outstanding service to chemistry and the GDCh.

🏆Congratulations to Paola Bertucci (Yale) on receiving the Paul Bunge Prize from GDCh for her book “In the Land of Marvels. Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour”. Her work offers fresh insights into Abbé Nollet’s contributions and the pivotal role of electrical devices in the 18th century.

Gender Equality in Science: A Milestone on International Women’s Day 2025.

We’re proud to announce the publication of Sigrid Peyerimhoff’s autobiography https://l-i-c.org/1138 —hardcover as well as e-book edition! Watch our short video for a behind-the-scenes look at the journey from manuscript to print.