Professor Franz Geiger and Paul Ohno (former student)  will be awarded the 2021 ACS Nobel laureate Signature Award. This ACS national award is sponsored by Avantor “to recognize an outstanding graduate student and her or his preceptor, in the field of chemistry, broadly defined.” The award was established in 1978 by Avantor (formerly Mallinckrodt Baker Inc.) as the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for a Graduate Student in Chemistry. In 1980 the award was extended to recognize the student’s preceptor(s) and its title was changed.

Franz and Paul will be honored at an awards ceremony at the ACS Spring National Meeting in San Antonio in March 2021.

Notably, Franz and Paul are the fourth preceptor and student pair from Northwestern Chemistry – may this trend continue!

Congratulations, Professor Geiger and Paul.