Chemist wins prestigious science award worth € 15,000

化学家荣获价值15,000欧元的著名科学奖

Award recognizes breakthrough achievements in computational sciences

奖项表彰计算科学领域的突破性成就

Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today that the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award has been bestowed upon

默克公司，一家领先的科技公司，今天宣布亨利希·伊曼纽尔·默克奖已经授予了

Alán Aspuru-Guzik

阿兰·阿斯普鲁-古兹克

(48), professor of chemistry and computer science at the University of Toronto, Canada, in recognition of his groundbreaking innovations in computational sciences.

(48)，加拿大多伦多大学化学与计算机科学教授，因其在计算科学领域的开创性创新而获此殊荣。

The award ceremony, held at the Stadttheater Lindau in conjunction with the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting, highlighted the critical role of computational sciences in driving transformative research and fostering collaboration between academia and industry.

该颁奖典礼在林道市立剧院与林道诺贝尔奖得主会议联合举办，强调了计算科学在推动变革性研究和促进学术界与产业界合作中的关键作用。

“My research interests are in areas that are poised to disrupt the chemical sciences. We have pioneered algorithms for near-term quantum computers, and artificial intelligence and robotics for new materials. Recently we have focused strongly on AI agents that do science,” Aspuru-Guzik elaborated when receiving the prize in Lindau.

“我的研究兴趣集中在那些即将颠覆化学科学的领域。我们已经为近期的量子计算机、新材料的人工智能和机器人技术开发了前沿算法。最近，我们大力聚焦于从事科学研究的AI代理，”阿斯普鲁-古兹克在林道领取奖项时详细说道。

“Receiving the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award is a testament to the exceptionally talented, motivated, and collaborative Matter Lab research group that we have assembled at the University of Toronto.”.

“获得海因里希·埃马努埃尔·默克奖证明了我们在多伦多大学组建的物质实验室研究团队才华横溢、积极进取且富有协作精神。”

“Today we celebrate not just individual achievements, but a shared commitment to accelerating scientific discovery – driving breakthroughs that transform lives and open entirely new frontiers for innovation,” Laura Matz, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Merck, said in her laudatory speech.

“今天，我们不仅要庆祝个人的成就，更要庆祝加速科学发现的共同承诺——推动改变生活的突破，并为创新开辟全新的前沿领域，”默克公司首席科学和技术官劳拉·马茨在她的贺词中说道。

Aspuru-Guzik was awarded for his work as a leading researcher at the intersection of quantum information, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, automation, and chemistry. The award also honors his dedication to accelerating scientific discovery and finding novel materials. His work includes utilizing generative machine learning to optimize wave functions for quantum simulations.

阿斯普鲁-古兹克因其在量子信息、量子计算、人工智能、自动化和化学交叉领域的领先研究工作而获奖。该奖项还表彰了他致力于加速科学发现和寻找新型材料。他的工作包括利用生成式机器学习来优化量子模拟的波函数。

Additionally, he has made a significant contribution toward the development of self-driving laboratories (SDLs) that leverage Al and automation – as exemplified by his successful identification of top-performing organic lasers..

此外，他还为利用人工智能和自动化技术的自动驾驶实验室（SDLs）的发展做出了重要贡献——例如，他成功识别出性能最佳的有机激光器。

The innovative work at the

创新工作在

lab of Aspuru-Guzik

阿斯普鲁-古兹克实验室

also includes integrating quantum components into drug discovery pipelines, showcasing the potential of hybrid quantum-classical systems in generating viable drug options. Through these efforts,

还包括将量子组件整合到药物发现管道中，展示了混合量子-经典系统在生成可行药物选项方面的潜力。通过这些努力，

Aspuru-Guzik's team

阿斯普鲁-古兹克的团队

is making significant contributions to advancing materials science and chemistry.

正在为推进材料科学和化学做出重要贡献。

The awardee is also the CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute in Toronto, Director of the

获奖者还担任多伦多矢量研究所的CIFAR人工智能主席，以及

Acceleration Consortium

加速联盟

at the University of Toronto, and

多伦多大学，以及

Senior Director of Quantum Chemistry

高级量子化学总监

at NVIDIA.

在NVIDIA。

The Heinrich Emanuel Merck award not only honors individual achievements, but also serves as a catalyst for future innovation and collaboration in the field of computational sciences. Worth € 15,000, it recognizes scientists whose work focuses on new methods in chemical analysis and their development in applications in fields such as life sciences, environmental protection, and biosciences.

海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克奖不仅表彰个人成就，还作为计算科学领域未来创新与合作的催化剂。该奖项价值15,000欧元，旨在表彰那些专注于化学分析新方法及其在生命科学、环境保护和生物科学等领域应用发展的科学家。

Since 2025, the award has shifted focus to recognize innovations in computational sciences, reflecting the transformative impact of these fields..

自 2025 年以来，该奖项已将重点转向表彰计算科学领域的创新，反映了这些领域的变革性影响。

Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award

海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克奖

Merck began granting the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award in 1988 to mark the centennial of the first standardization of analytical methods by Dr. Karl Krauch, a Merck chemist. This list of the prizewinners documents the significance of the prize in the analytical sciences community, which has often laid the groundwork for important discoveries..

默克公司于1988年开始颁发海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克奖，以纪念默克公司化学家卡尔·克劳赫博士在分析方法上的首次标准化的百年纪念。这份获奖者名单记录了该奖项在分析科学界的重要性，这些奖项常常为重要的发现奠定了基础。

Former winners of the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award are:

曾经获得海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克奖的得主有：

Name

名称

Year

年份

Institution, country

机构，国家

Dr. Valérie Gabelica

瓦莱丽·加贝利卡博士

2022

2022

Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM & CNRS), France

欧洲化学与生物研究所（波尔多大学、法国国家健康与医学研究院及法国国家科学研究中心），法国

Prof. David Alsteens

大卫·阿尔斯滕斯教授

2019

2019

UC Louvain, Belgium

鲁汶大学，比利时

Prof. Francesco Ricci

弗朗切斯科·里奇教授

2017

2017

University of Rome, Italy

意大利罗马大学

Prof. Petra Dittrich

彼得拉·迪特里希教授

2015

2015

ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

苏黎世联邦理工学院，瑞士

Prof. Aaron Wheeler

亚伦·惠勒教授

2012

2012

University of Toronto, Canada

加拿大多伦多大学

Prof. Luisa Torsi

路易莎·托尔西教授

2010

2010

University of Bari, Italy

意大利巴里大学

Dr. Alexander Makarov

亚历山大·马卡洛夫博士

Prof. Shuming Nie

聂书明教授

2007

2007年

2007

2007年

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany

德国赛默飞世尔科技公司

Emory University, Atlanta, USA

埃默里大学，亚特兰大，美国

Prof. Yoshinobu Baba

巴巴义信教授

2004

2004年

University of Tokushima, Japan

日本德岛大学

Prof. Jonathan V. Sweedler

乔纳森·V·斯威德勒教授

2002

2002

University of Illinois, USA

美国伊利诺伊大学

Prof. Norman Dovichi

诺曼·多维奇教授

2000

2000

University of Alberta, Canada

加拿大阿尔伯塔大学

Prof. Renato Zenobi

雷纳托·泽诺比教授

1998

1998年

ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

苏黎世联邦理工学院，瑞士

Prof. D. Jed Harrison

D. Jed Harrison 教授

Prof. Andreas Manz

安德烈亚斯·曼兹教授

1996

1996年

1996

1996年

University of Alberta, Canada

加拿大阿尔伯塔大学

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

英国伦敦帝国理工学院

Prof. Aviv Amirav

阿维夫·阿米拉夫教授

1993

1993

University of Tel Aviv, Israel

以色列特拉维夫大学

Dr. Brian A. Bidlingmeyer

布赖恩·A·比林迈尔博士

Prof. Reinhard Niessner

赖因哈德·尼斯纳教授

1990

1990年

1990

1990年

Millipore Corporation, USA

美国密理博公司

Technical University München, Germany

德国慕尼黑工业大学

Prof. Mastaka Hiraide

平出雅隆教授

Prof. Otto S. Wolfbeis

奥托·S·沃尔夫贝斯教授

1988

1988年

1988

1988年

University of Nagoya, Japan

日本名古屋大学

University of Graz, Austria

奥地利格拉茨大学

Heinrich Emanuel Merck (1794-1855)

亨利·伊曼纽尔·默克（1794-1855）

Heinrich Emanuel Merck was a direct descendant of Merck’s founder Friedrich Jacob Merck, who had received a privilege for a pharmacy — later known as Engel-Apotheke — in Darmstadt in 1668. Heinrich Emanuel Merck was occupied with research, which was unusual at the time. His teachers included the Erfurt pharmacist and reformer of the pharmaceutical field, Johann Bartholomaeus Trommsdorff and the chemical analyst Martin Heinrich Klaproth as well as the phytochemist Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstaedt.

海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克是默克创始人弗里德里希·雅各布·默克的直系后裔，后者于1668年在达姆施塔特获得了一家药房（后来被称为恩格尔药房）的经营权。海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克从事研究工作，这在当时并不常见。他的导师包括埃尔福特药剂师、制药领域的改革者约翰·巴托洛梅乌斯·特罗姆斯多夫，化学分析师马丁·海因里希·克拉普罗特以及植物化学家西吉斯蒙德·弗里德里希·赫姆施泰特。

The latter two both lectured at the university in Berlin..

后者都在柏林大学讲课。

In 1816, Heinrich Emanuel Merck took over his father‘s pharmacy in Darmstadt, which his family had owned since 1668. Soon afterwards, Merck began working intensively on a new field of analytical chemistry at his lab in the pharmacy: alkaloids. His experiments to isolate and characterize the known alkaloids led to the start of bulk production in 1827, which enjoyed immediate success.

1816年，海因里希·埃马努埃尔·默克接管了他父亲位于达姆施塔特的药房，这个药房自1668年以来一直由他的家族拥有。不久之后，默克开始在他的药房实验室中全力研究分析化学的一个新领域：生物碱。他对已知生物碱进行分离和特性鉴定的实验促成了1827年大规模生产的开始，并立即取得了成功。

In his „Cabinet of pharmaceutical and chemical innovations“, Merck presented 16 alkaloids for scientific experiments to his fellow experts and doctors. Heinrich Emanuel Merck was well known among his customers for the purity of the alkaloids he sold..

在他的“药学和化学创新柜”中，默克向他的专家和医生同行们展示了16种用于科学实验的生物碱。海因里希·伊曼纽尔·默克因其出售的生物碱的纯度而在客户中广为人知。

In 1888, Dr. Carl Krauch (1853-1934), chief analytical chemist at Merck published the first analytical standard work, a short book titled „Testing chemical reagents for purity“. In the same year, Merck announced that from then on, it would only introduce reagents to the market that complied with Krauch’s purity criteria described in this book.

1888年，默克公司的首席分析化学家卡尔·克劳赫博士（Carl Krauch，1853-1934）出版了第一本分析标准著作，这是一本名为《测试化学试剂纯度》的短书。同年，默克公司宣布从那时起，它只会将符合这本书中描述的克劳赫纯度标准的试剂引入市场。

This marked the beginning of the era of reagents of guaranteed purity and of modern thinking in analytical chemistry..

这标志着保证纯度的试剂和分析化学现代思维时代的开始。