The Carlsberg Foundation awards Research Prize to Professor of Chemistry Karl Anker Jørgensen

[Translate to English:] Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen får overrakt Carlsbergfondets Forskningspris 2017 af HKH Kronprinsessen. Foto: Martin Juul.

[Translate to English:] Overrækkelse af Carlsbergfondets Forskningspriser 2017. Fra venstre præsident i Videnskabernes Selskab Mogens Høgh Jensen, uddannelses- og forskningsminister Søren Pind, prismodtager Mette Birkedal Bruun, HKH Kronprinsessen, prismodtager Karl Anker Jørgensen, bestyrelsesformand i Carlsbergfondet Flemming Besenbacher og generalsekretær i Videnskabernes Selskab Lars Arge. Foto: Martin Juul.

4 September 2017 by Anne-Mette Siem

On Sunday 3 September, Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen, Department of Chemistry, was presented with one of the two Carlsberg Foundation Research Prizes 2017.

He received the prize for his for ground-breaking research in homogeneous catalysis with particular focus on metal-catalysed oxidation reactions and asymmetrical catalysis.

Read the Carlsberg Foundation’s portrait of Karl Anker Jørgensen and see a film about his research.