Professor Roman Kaliszan from the Department of Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics of the Medical University of Gdańsk received the Tswett-Nernst prize. The prize was awarded during the 32nd International Symposium on Chromatography 2018 in Cannes-Mandelieu.

The Tswett-Nernst Prize is awarded every two years by the European Society for Separation Science to scientists who have “profoundly influenced the development of separation sciences for the progress of our civilization”.

The authors of the award are the founder of the chromatography Mikhail Tswett, who conducted his research and results at the University of Warsaw and Walter Nernst, a German Nobel prize winner in chemistry, who was born and raised in Polish Wąbrzeźno.

Professor Kaliszan is the eighth winner in the history of the prize and the first Pole to receive this award. The second scientist awarded this year was Prof. Michel Martin from the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris.