Tswett-Nernst Award

In 2009, at the request of Bogusław Buszewski, Hartmut Frank, and Imre Molnár, the European Society for Separation Science (EuSSS) established the European prize, the Tswett–Nernst Award, in memory of the two recognized scientists, Mikhail Semenovich Tswett, Russian–Italian biologist, inventor of column chromatography in the year 1903, and Walther Nernst, German physicist and chemist, laureate of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In this way, it was intended to appreciate, at the European level, all those who have made an indisputable contribution to the development of separation techniques and to significantly promote these techniques in the international community. Bogusław Buszewski, Poland, was appointed the chairman of the Tswett–Nernst Award Board and Václav Kašička, Czech Republic, became the secretary. As a result of a secret ballot, two winners are selected: one from western Europe and one from central, eastern, and northern European countries. The winners are invited to deliver a plenary lecture.
The statuette and diploma have been presented during the European symposia on separation methods from the series of International Symposia on Chromatography, starting in 2010 at the 28th ISC in Valencia, Spain. Starting in 2022 in Ljubljana, the Tswett–Nernst Award is now presented during the Opening Ceremony of the ISSS symposia.