The prize worth €10,000, was recently presented to Anastas at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt during a special public lecture
Merck announced that the American chemist professor Paul T Anastas has been awarded this year’s Emanuel Merck Lectureship. In the 1990s, Anastas coined the term ‘green chemistry’ and with it more sustainability-oriented chemical value chains.
The prize worth €10,000, was recently presented to Anastas at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt during a special public lecture.
Anastas’ visionary idea was to observe the whole life cycle of chemicals and, building on this, develop the best, least harmful and safest manufacturing process.
“With his twelve principles of green chemistry, Paul Anastas has shown us a modern form of chemistry, the most important pillar of which is the principle of sustainability. The chemical and pharma industries will take these principles more strongly into account in the future. I am very pleased to award him the Emanuel Merck Lectureship, together with the Technical University of Darmstadt,” said Thomas Geelhaar, Chief Technology Officer Chemicals at Merck and President of the German Chemical Society.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai
