The Max Planck Institutes in Mülheim, together with the Ernst Haage Foundation, are again awarding the Ernst Haage Prize for Chemistry. The award is aimed at talented young scientists with a PhD who are currently working at a German research institution or university. More information on the call for nominations can be found if you follow the link.

To produce specifically designed molecules, quantum chemistry has become an increasingly important partner of experimental chemistry over the past decades. It becomes particularly productive when molecular spectroscopy and quantum chemistry are combined, as now described in an overview article in NATURE REVIEWS where Frank Neese contributed his insights on transition metal spectroscopy. We visited his spectroscopy lab.