🎁HBT to Dieter Jahn, who turns 75 today. Dieter Jahn joined BASF in 1979. He has served the scientific community as Chair of the Council of the Konstanz University and as President of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) in 2006/2007 and received the GDCh’s Honorary Membership in 2016. Since 2024, Dieter Jahn has been a member of the Advisory Board of the autobiography series “Lives in Chemistry” (l-i-c.org).

🌻Rest in peace, Günther Maier. The chemist who made one “impossible molecule” after another died on April 10 at the age of 94. He was a modest man who meticulously trained a large number of PhD students. His achievements were recognized with the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Medal of the GDCh. https://l-i-c.org/1125

Happy Easter from the LiC team! Our Easter Bunny has been busy painting Easter eggs this year.
Wishing you a joyful holiday and a colorful spring!

🏆Congratulations to Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, who was awarded honorary membership of the Deutsche #BunsenGesellschaft (bunsen.de) today. Fittingly, this comes on Bunsen’s birthday. She published her autobiography, “Burning for Science—A Woman in a Technical Field” (l-i-c.org/1137), only last year.

📅 Lutz Ackermann, Peter Gölitz, Dieter Kaufmann, and Oliver Reiser have organized an Armin de Meijere Memorial Symposium, “From Small Rings to Large Compounds” (program: https://l-i-c.org/news-events.html#20260522), which will take place on May 22, 2026, at the University of Göttingen. Attendance is free for all, registration required (see program).

🌻Henning Hopf passed away on March 12 only three months after his 85th birthday. A great organic chemist who had deeply cared about our community—a true “mensch”—has left us. Lives in Chemistry l-i-c.org lost a most insightful Advisory Board member who had enormously contributed to this endeavor from the beginning.

🎁HBT to Hans-Joachim Freund, who turns 75 today.
Hajo Freund is not only an exceptional scientist; he also served the community in many ways—for example, as a textbook author and journal editor. He has been a great mentor whose “academic footprint” is enormous.

4,000+ Directory of Key Modern Chemists
🕮The complete directory of names for the first 15 autobiographies in the series “Lives in Chemistry” is now available for free use. This provides immediate and convenient access to 4,234 pages and 3,095 illustrations.
https://l-i-c.org/licdir.html

🎁HBT Carsten Reinhardt, who turns 60 today.
His oeuvre in the history of science is vast and wide-ranging, with a focus on the history of chemistry. He has served several times as chair of the GDCh’s History of Chemistry Division, and he has been chair of the LiC Advisory Board from the beginning.

🕮Throughout his live in chemistry, Ryoji Noyori met Sir Derek Barton (see photo) and many, many more illustrious #chemists from all over the world. Have a look at the richly illustrated—136 photos on 159 pages—“Long, Memorable #Journey with the #International Community” of Ryoji Noyori that supplements his autobiography “#Research Should Be Fresh, Simple, and Clear”, published recently in the “Lives in Chemistry” series.
Free Download: https://doi.org/10.47261/1564_int_ep