Dieter Seebach#
| Membership Number: | 428 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- Presently “Akademischer Gast” at ETH
- Since 1977 Full Professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich; retired since 2003
- 1971 - 1977 Full Professor at the Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanistic studies
- Chiral dendrimers
- Development of new synthetic methods
- β-peptides
- Natural product synthesis
- Structure determination
Honours and Awards
- 1969 Dozentenpreis Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Germany
- 1984 FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.)
- 1984 Elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, D-Halle
- 1985 Havinga Medal of the Stichting Havinga Fonds, NL-Leiden
- 1987 Karl Ziegler-Preis of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- 1987 First Fluka-Prize for the Reagent of the Year 1987
- 1989 Dr. h.c. of the University of Montpellier, France
- 1990 Corresponding member, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, D-Mainz
- 1991 Centenary Lectureship and Medal, The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1992 Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis, American Chemical Society
- 1995 The Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists’s Club, Philadelphia, USA
- 1996 Rolf Sammet-Stiftungsgastprofessur der Hoechst AG, Universität D-Frankfurt/Main
- The Cliff S. Hamilton Award in Organic Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- 1998 Einzelmitglied der Schweizerischen Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften (SATW)
- 1999 The King Faisal International Prize in Science for 1999, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- The Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society
- 2000 Yamada Prize, The Japan Research Foundation for Optically Active Compounds, Tokyo
- Marcel Benoist-Preis 2000, Eidgenössischer Wissenschaftspreis, Marcel-Benoist-Stiftung (Schweiz)
- 2001 Corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (AMC), México
- 2002 Chirality Gold Medal, International Symposium on Chirality
- Nagoya Gold Medal, Japan
- 2003 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry for 2003
- 2004 Vincent du Vigneaud Award 2004, American Peptide Society
- Honorary Member of the Swiss Chemical Society
- Ryoji Noyori Prize 2004, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
- 2005 Max-Bergmann-Medaille 2005 des Max-Bergmann-Kreises zur Förderung der Peptidforschung
- 2007 National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Foreign Associate
- 2010 Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Japan
