Hyun Suk Wang ignites the next stage in plastic recycling
Prix Schläfli 2025 for Chemistry: He favours collaboration over competition and hopes his research will help to create a better world. Hyun Suk Wang has now been awarded the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Prix Schläfli in Chemistry for his work on controlled “degradation” of plastics.
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Julia Reisenbauer is speeding up the search for medicines
Prix Schläfli 2024 Chemistry: Even as a child, she wanted to become a scientist. And now, Julia Reisenbauer has been honoured with the Prix Schläfli Chemistry for her contribution to "skeletal editing". This involves targeted rebuilding of molecules so they can perform specific functions.
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Michelle Frei – Illuminating cells
Prix Schläfli 2023: Her work could revolutionise fluorescence microscopy. Michelle Frei has developed a new method to render processes in living cells visible at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. She has been awarded the Prix Schläfli for Chemistry in recognition of this.
Philippe Schwaller – making chemistry with linguistic algorithms
How do you use artificial intelligence to simulate chemical processes? Philippe Schwaller has developed a program that has been named the best of its kind by an independent research group.
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Claudia Aloisi – Harnessing the beauty of chemistry
Her work could pave the way for new forms of cancer screening: Claudia Aloisi researched a new method for quantifying and determining DNA damage at ETH Zurich. She got the Prix Schläfli award in chemistry for this.
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Robert Pollice - What holds the world together
He won medals at international chemistry olympiads even as a teenager. Now Robert Pollice adds to his collection the Prix Schläfli in Chemistry, for researching material properties that are, amongst other things, important in nanomedicine.
