The recipient of the 2008 award is Professor Wolfgang Lindner, of the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been selected in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of separation sciences, and most particularly in the realm of stereoselective separation techniques.

Wolfgang Lindner has, throughout his academic career, succeeded admirably in bridging both organic and analytical chemistry. Focusing strongly, since the late 1970s, on chromatographic stereoselective separation techniques, he is a pioneer in the field and has contributed greatly to the global dissemination of the methodology. In many ways a founder of this new technology, including the design, synthesis and mechanistic understanding of anion- and cation-exchanger type chiral stationary phases possessing unique features, Lindner?s scientific vocation has been driven by his fascination for the molecular recognition concept in chromatography.

The Chirality Medal was instituted by the Società Chimica Italiana in 1991 to honor internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to all aspects of chirality.

Previous Winners of the Chirality Medal