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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded Jens K. Nørskov (Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby near Copenhagen; DTU) its Gabor A. Somorjai Prize for his creative catalysis research. He is thus recognized for his outstanding achievements in this area, and in particular for his work to develop a quantitative catalysis theory for reactions such as CO hydrogenation on surfaces. He recently reported in Angewandte Chemie on trends in catalysis of CO oxidation with nanoparticles, [1a] and also on the role of the surface modification of palladium catalysts for selective acetylene hydrogenation. [1b] Nørskov studied chemistry and physics at the University of Aarhus and completed his doctorate in theoretical physics there in 1979 under B. I. Lundqvist. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Aarhus, at IBM in Yorktown Heights, NY (USA), and with the Danish catalyst manufacturer Haldor Topsøe. In 1987 he was made research professor at the DTU, and he has been professor for theoretical physics there since 1992. He has been a visiting researcher in the USA on numerous occasions, for example at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Nørskov is a member of the international advisory board of ChemCatChem, the new sister journal of Angewandte Chemie.
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