2020 Award
The Coblentz Society will present the 2020 Coblentz Award to Dr. Benjamin P. Fingerhut of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin, Germany. The date and place of the award presentation has not yet been determined due to the COVID-19 situation.
Benjamin Fingerhut studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. In 2011 he completed his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Regina de Vivie-Riedle. He joined the group of Prof. Shaul Mukamel at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2011. In 2014 he moved to the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin, Germany, where he is currently heading the Biomolecular Dynamics research group.
Dr. Fingerhut's research focuses on the real-time investigation of ultrafast structural dynamics of molecular and biomolecular systems. The group aims at novel computational simulation protocols suited to investigate nonadiabatic relaxation phenomena in vibrational and electronic excited states. In close collaboration with experimentalists, he applies vibrational probes for the quantification of noncovalent interactions of hydrated biomolecules in aqueous environments. The group developed a numerically efficient path integral method for the description of open quantum systems.
Dr. Fingerhut's contributions to science have been recognized by many awards and grants, including the Coblentz Award, an ERC Starting Grant (2018), the Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award (2016), the Emmy Noether Early Career Grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2014), and the Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (2012).
About the Coblentz Award
The Coblentz Award is presented annually to an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40. This award is the Society’s original award (first awarded in 1964), and is the complement of the 'Craver Award' that recognizes young spectroscopists for efforts in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. The candidate must be under the age of 40 on January 1 of the year of the award. The award comprises an honorarium, a plaque with a prism from the periscope of a World War II Navy submarine, and a travel allowance.Award Symposium
The award is presented annually at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (ISMS).Nominations
Recipients of the Coblentz Award are listed below:
2019 | Aleksandra Foltynowicz | |
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2018 | Hans Jakob Wörner |
2017 | Wei Min | |
2016 | Kenneth Knappenberger, Jr. | |
2015 | Gary Douberly | |
2014 | Peng Chen | |
2013 | Nathalie Picqué | |
2012 | Greg Engel | |
2011 | --- No Award Presented --- | |
2010 | Timothy Schmidt | |
2009 | Benjamin McCall | |
2008 | Xiaowei Zhuang | |
2007 | Martin Zanni | |
2006 | Michael Strano | |
2005 | Sergey Nizkorodov | |
2004 | No Award Presented | |
2003 | Andrea Callegari | |
2002 | Andrei Tokmakoff | |
2001 | Stacey Bent | |
2000 | Martin Gruebele | |
1999 | Brooks Pate | |
1998 | Pat Treado | |
1997 | Moungi G. Bawendi | |
1996 | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie | |
1995 | David J. Rakestraw | |
1994 | A. Paul Alivisatos | |
1993 | Peter M. Felker | |
1992 | Thomas R. Rizzo | |
1991 | Paul W. Bohn | |
1990 | Hai-Lung Dai | |
1989 | Geraldine L. Richmond | |
1988 | Keith A. Nelson | |
1987 | Alan Campion | |
1986 | Joel M. Harris | |
1985 | John F. Rabolt / Graham Fleming | |
1984 | Stephen R. Leone | |
1983 | David G. Cameron | |
1982 | Christopher Patterson | |
1981 | Laurence A. Nafie | |
1980 | Richard P. Van Duyne | |
1979 | Lionel A. Carreira | |
1978 | Lester Andrews | |
1977 | Peter R. Griffiths | |
1976 | Geoffrey Ozin / George Thomas, Jr. | |
1975 | Bernard J. Bulkin | |
1974 | C. K. N. Patel | |
1973 | C. Bradley Moore | |
1972 | George E. Leroi | |
1971 | Clive Perry | |
1970 | Guiseppi Zerbi | |
1969 | James R. Durig | |
1968 | Jon T. Hougen | |
1967 | Peter Krueger | |
1966 | Edwin Becker | |
1965 | William Fateley / Robert Snyder | |
1964 | John Overend | |