Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
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The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title ) is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.-Function:...

 (German research foundation) every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

, to be used within seven years. Every year, ten Leibniz prizes are awarded.

Prize winners include Dieter Lüst
Dieter Lüst
Dieter Lüst is a German physicist, full professor for mathematical physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich since 2004 and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. His research focusses on string theory...

 (2000), Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathematics and in 1981 he got the venia legendi in mathematics, both from the University...

 (1996), Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss is a German developmental biologist, and the current president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft...

 (1994), Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.He earned his PhD from Uppsala...

 (1992), Dieter Fenske
Dieter Fenske
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fenske is a German inorganic chemist.Fenske studied chemistry at the University of Münster, received his PhD in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978...

 (1992), Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler is a German behavioral biologist and Sociobiologist whose primary study subjects are social insects and in particular ants. He is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants with Edward O. Wilson...

 1990), Theodor W. Hänsch (1989), Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff is a theoretical chemist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany....

 (1989), Jürgen Mittelstraß
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Jürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.He was born in Düsseldorf in 1936 and studied philosophy, history and protestant theology at Bonn, Erlangen, Hamburg and Oxford from 1956 till 1961.He received his Ph.D...

 (1989), Günter Hotz
Günter Hotz
Günter Hotz is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuitsand computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.Hotz...

 (1989), Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist.Erwin Neher studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US...

 (1987), Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
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 (1987), Dietrich Dörner
Dietrich Dörner
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Dörner is emeritus professor for General and Theoretical Psychology at the at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany....

 (1986), Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...

 (1986), Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.He was born 18 July 1948 in Ludwigsburg. After compulsory military service, he studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, working for his final year at Dieter Oesterhelt’s laboratory on ATPase activity of halobacteria.In 1986, he...

 (1986), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B...

 (1986).

2011

  • Ulla Bonas, Microbiology / Molecular phytopathology (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Christian Büchel, Cognitive neurscience (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)
  • Anja Feldmann
    Anja Feldmann
    Anja Feldmann is a German computer scientist. She studied computer science at Universität Paderborn and received her Diplom in 1990. In 1991 she received her M.Sc. and in 1992 her Ph.D...

    , Computer science / Computer networks / Internet (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Organic geochemistry (Universität Bremen)
  • Anthony A. Hyman
    Anthony A. Hyman
    Anthony A. Hyman is a noted British scientist and academic figure. Anthony studied zoology at the University College in London, went on to complete his PhD in molecular cell biology at King's College in Cambridge, and then completed his postdoc at the University of California in San Francisco....

    , Cell biology / Microtubuli and cleavage (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
  • Bernhard Keimer, Experimental solid-state physics (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart)
  • Franz Pfeiffer, X-Ray physics (Technische Universität München)
  • Joachim Friedrich Quack, Ägyptologie (Universität Heidelberg)
  • Gabriele Sadowski, Thermodynamics (Technische Universität Dortmund)
  • Christine Silberhorn, Quantum optics (Universität Paderborn)

2010

  • Jan Born, Neuroendocrinology / Sleep research (University of Lübeck)
  • Peter Fratzl, Biomaterials (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam)
  • Roman Inderst
    Roman Inderst
    Roman Inderst is a German economist. He currently holds the chair for finance and economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests include corporate finance, banking, competition policy, and information economics...

    , Macroeconomics (University Frankfurt/Main)
  • Christoph Klein, Pediatrics / Oncology (Hannover Medical School)
  • Ulman Lindenberger, Lifespan psychology (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
  • Frank Neese
    Frank Neese
    Frank Neese is a German theoretical chemist at the University of Bonn. His research interest includes computation of electronic structures of molecules. Neese was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2010.-External links:*...

    , Theoretical chemistry (University Bonn)
  • Jürgen Osterhammel
    Jürgen Osterhammel
    Jürgen Osterhammel is a German historian.-Academia:Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the London School of Economics in 1976/77 and studied and worked there under Professor Ian Nish. In 1980 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in Modern History...

    , Recent and modern history (University Konstanz)
  • Petra Schwille, Biophysics (Dresden University of Technology)
  • Stefan Treue, Cognitive Neurosciences (German Primate Center, Göttingen)
  • Joachim Weickert, Digital image processing (Saarland University)

2009

  • Antje Boetius
    Antje Boetius
    Antje Boetius is a German marine biologist presently serving as professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, with 2.5 million euros in funding, in March 2009 for her study of sea bed...

    , Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
    Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
    The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is located in Bremen, Germany. It was founded in 1992, almost a year after the foundation of its sister institute, the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology at Marburg. In 1996, the institute moved into new buildings at the campus of the...

    , Bremen
  • Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

  • Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems...

    , University of Freiburg
    University of Freiburg
    The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...

  • Heinrich Detering, University of Göttingen
  • Jürgen Eckert, University of Dresden
  • Armin Falk
    Armin Falk
    Armin Falk is a German economist. He holds a chair at the University of Bonn since 2003.-Biography:Born in Bergisch-Gladbach, Falk attended the University of Cologne majoring in economics...

    , University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

  • Frank Kirchhoff, University of Ulm
    University of Ulm
    The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

  • Jürgen Rödel, University of Darmstadt
  • Karl Lenhard Rudolph, University of Ulm
    University of Ulm
    The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

  • Burkhard Wilking, University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

  • Martin R. Zirnbauer, University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...


2008

  • Susanne Albers
    Susanne Albers
    Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Albers studied mathematics, computer science, and business administration in Osnabrück and received her Ph. D. in 1993 at Saarland University under the supervision of Kurt...

     - theoretical computer science
    Theoretical computer science
    Theoretical computer science is a division or subset of general computer science and mathematics which focuses on more abstract or mathematical aspects of computing....

    , University of Freiburg
    University of Freiburg
    The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...

  • Martin Beneke
    Martin Beneke
    -Biography:Beneke studied Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, University of Cambridge and University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the structure of perturbative series in higher order and habilitated in...

     - theoretical particle physics, RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

  • Holger Boche - , TU Berlin
  • Martin Carrier philosophy, Bielefeld University
    Bielefeld University
    Bielefeld University is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities...

  • Elena Conti - structural biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The Institute was "founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of...

    , Martinsried
    Martinsried
    Martinsried is a section of Planegg, a municipality neighboring Munich, Germany. Martinsried lies about 15 km southwest of Munich's city center.Martinsried is mostly known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and the...

  • Elisa Izaurralde - cell biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells...

    , Tübingen
    Tübingen
    Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

  • Holger Fleischer - economic law, University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

  • Stefan W. Hell
    Stefan Hell
    Stefan W. Hell is a physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany as well as the head of the department "Optical Nanoscopy" at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.- Life :In 1981 Hell began his studies at the...

     - biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....

    , Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

  • Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern is a German solid state chemist.Kern studied at the University of Bonn chemistry and physics, and received his Ph.D in 1986. He worked first at the Jülich Research Centre with a short visit at the Bell Labs in 1988. He became professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...

     - physical solid state chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research is part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in Büsnau which is part of Stuttgart, Germany....

    , Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

  • Wolfgang Lück
    Wolfgang Lück
    Wolfgang Lück is a German mathematician who is an internationally recognized expert in Algebraic Topology.- Life and work :...

     - algebraic topology, University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    ;
  • Jochen Mannhart - experimental solid state physics, University of Augsburg
    University of Augsburg
    The University of Augsburg is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 7 Faculties....


2007

  • Jens Claus Brüning - molecular diabetes research, endocrinology (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Patrick Bruno - theoretical solid-state physics (MPI for Microstructure Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
    Situated at a lush green meadow by the river Saale, the at is a premier institute in Germany, as well as in the world, in the field of material research. It was founded in 1992 as a follow up of the Academy of Science Institute of Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy and moved into the new...

    , Halle/Saale)
  • Magdalena Götz - neurology (GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Peter Gumbsch - material science (Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik, Freiburg i. Br. and Halle/Saale)
  • Gerald Haug - paleoclimatology (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam and University of Potsdam
    University of Potsdam
    The University of Potsdam is a German university, situated across four campuses in Potsdam, Brandenburg, including the New Palace of Sanssouci and the Park Babelsberg.- Profile :...

    )
  • Bernhard Jussen - mediaeval history (Bielefeld University
    Bielefeld University
    Bielefeld University is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities...

    )
  • Guinevere Kauffmann
    Guinevere Kauffmann
    Guinevere Alice Mei-Ing Kauffmann is an American astrophysicist.She studied astronomy at the University of Cape Town until 1990. She finished her Ph.D at the University of Cambridge in 1993....

     - astrophysics (MPI for Astrophysics
    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
    The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics...

    , Garching
    Garching bei München
    Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.-Location:...

    )
  • Falko Langenhorst - mineralogy and petrology (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
    Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
    Friedrich Schiller University of Jena , is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany....

    )
  • Oliver Primavesi - classical philology (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Detlef Weigel
    Detlef Weigel
    Detlef Weigel is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology.-Scientific career:...

     - herbal developmental biology (MPI for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells...

    , Tübingen
    Tübingen
    Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

    )

2006

  • Matthias Beller and Peter Wasserscheid
    Peter Wasserscheid
    Peter Wasserscheid is a German chemist and professor for chemical reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg...

     - homogeneous catalysis
    Homogeneous catalysis
    In chemistry, homogeneous catalysis is a sequence of reactions that involve a catalyst in the same phase as the reactants. Most commonly, a homogeneous catalyst is codissolved in a solvent with the reactants.-Acid catalysis:...

     (Leibniz-Institute for Organic Catalysis at the University of Rostock
    University of Rostock
    The University of Rostock is the university of the city Rostock, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Founded in 1419, it is the oldest and largest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Sea area...

    ) and chemical processing
    Chemical engineering
    Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

     (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • Patrick Cramer
    Patrick Cramer
    Patrick Cramer is a German biochemist.He was born 3 February 1969 in Stuttgart, he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Heidelberg from 1989 till 1995. After his phd at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble till 1998, he did his postdoctoral at...

     – structural biology
    Structural biology
    Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Peter Jonas - neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Ferenc Krausz
    Ferenc Krausz
    Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist, whose research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons’ motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.....

     - quantum optics
    Quantum optics
    Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter.- History of quantum optics :...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

     and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching)
  • Klaus Mezger - geochemistry
    Geochemistry
    The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks, water, and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space, and...

     (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Thomas Mussweiler – social psychology
    Social psychology
    Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...

     (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Felix Otto
    Felix Otto
    Felix Otto is a German mathematician.He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993 under the supervision of Stephan Luckhaus....

     - analysis of partial differential equation
    Partial differential equation
    In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...

    s (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Dominik Perler
    Dominik Perler
    Dominik Perler is a Swiss philosopher.He was born in Freiburg im Üechtland.Perler studied philosophy at the University of Fribourg, University of Bern and University of Göttingen. After finishing his PhD thesis at the University of Fribourg in 1991, Perler was a visiting scholar at Cornell...

     - history of philosophy
    History of philosophy
    The history of philosophy is the study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time. Issues specifically related to history of philosophy might include : How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in its historical context? To what...

    /theoretical philosophy
    Theoretical philosophy
    The division of philosophy into a practical and a theoretical discipline has its origin in Aristotle's moral philosophy and natural philosophy categories. In Denmark, Finland, Poland, and Sweden courses in theoretical and practical philosophy are taught separately, and are separate degrees...

     (Humboldt University of Berlin
    Humboldt University of Berlin
    The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

    )
  • Gyburg Radke - classical philology
    Classical philology
    Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

     and philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Marino Zerial - cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

     (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
    The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2000...

    , Dresden
    Dresden
    Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

    )

2005

  • Peter Becker
    Peter Becker
    Peter Becker is a German Molecular biologist.He studied biology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg till 1984. And finished his Ph.D at the German Cancer Research Center and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in 1987....

     - cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

    /biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Immanuel Bloch - quantum optics
    Quantum optics
    Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter.- History of quantum optics :...

     (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...

    )
  • Stefanie Dimmeler
    Stefanie Dimmeler
    Stefanie Dimmeler is a German biologist and biochemist. Since 2001, she has been Professor of Experimental Medicine and Head of Molecular Cardiology at the University of Frankfurt, and in 2005 she won the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize...

     - molecular cardiology
    Cardiology
    Cardiology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the heart . The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Jürgen Gauß
    Jürgen Gauß
    Jürgen Gauß is a German theoretical chemist.He was born 13 August 1960 in Konstanz. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 till 1984...

     - theoretical chemistry
    Theoretical chemistry
    Theoretical chemistry seeks to provide theories that explain chemical observations. Often, it uses mathematical and computational methods that, at times, require advanced knowledge. Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of...

     (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...

    )
  • Günther Hasinger - astrophysics
    Astrophysics
    Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...

     (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
    The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany.In 1991 the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics split up into the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the...

    , Garching
    Garching bei München
    Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.-Location:...

    )
  • Christian Jung - plant breeding
    Plant breeding
    Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to more complex molecular...

     (University of Kiel
    University of Kiel
    The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...

    )
  • Axel Ockenfels
    Axel Ockenfels
    Axel Ockenfels is a German economist. He is currently professor of political economics at the University of Cologne.Ockenfels received his Diplom in economics from the University of Bonn in 1994, where he studied under Reinhard Selten...

     - experimental economics
    Experimental economics
    Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms. Economic experiments usually use cash to motivate subjects, in...

     (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Wolfgang Peukert
    Wolfgang Peukert
    Wolfgang Peukert is a German process engineer. He won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2005.-References:*...

     - mechanical process engineering (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
    Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
    The Universität Erlangen Nürnberg is a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having five Schools, 308 chairs, and 12,000 employees. There are 28,735 students enrolled at the university, of which about 2/3 are...

    )
  • Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
    Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
    Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is a German historian. She studied German language and literature, history and history of art at the University of Cologne, graduating in 1980 and earning a doctorate in 1985. She habilitated at the University of Cologne in 1995...

     - History
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

     of early modern Europe
    Early modern Europe
    Early modern Europe is the term used by historians to refer to a period in the history of Europe which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century...

     (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Andreas Tünnermann - microsystems technology (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena
    Jena
    Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

    )

2004

  • Frank Allgöwer - control engineering
    Control engineering
    Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...

     (University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart
    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

    )
  • Gabriele Brandstetter - theatre
    Theatre
    Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

     science
    Stagecraft
    Stagecraft is a generic term referring to the technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes, but is not limited to, constructing and rigging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, design and procurement of costumes, makeup, procurement of props, stage management, and...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Thomas Carell
    Thomas Carell
    Thomas Carell is a German biochemist.Carell was born in 1966 in Herford Germany, he studied chemistry from 1985 till 1990 at the University of Münster finishing with a diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg. After his PhD thesis on Porphyrin chemistry at the same...

     - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Karl Christoph Klauer - social
    Social psychology
    Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...

      and cognitive psychology
    Cognitive psychology
    Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes.It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.Cognitive psychology differs from previous psychological approaches in two key ways....

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Hannah Monyer
    Hannah Monyer
    Hannah Monyer is a Romanian-born German neurobiologist and, since 1999, she has been Director of the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg. In 2004 she was awarded the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize...

     - neurobiology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Nikolaus Pfanner and Jürgen Soll - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

    /molecular cell biology of plant
    Plant
    Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

    s (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Klaus Dieter Pfeffer - immunology
    Immunology
    Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

     (Heinrich Heine University)
  • Dierk Raabe - material science (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
    Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
    The Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Düsseldorf. The institute was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research in Aachen 1917 and moved 1921 to Düsseldorf.-External links:* *...

    , Düsseldorf
    Düsseldorf
    Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

    )
  • Konrad Samwer - solid state physics (Georg August University of Göttingen)
  • Manfred Strecker - structural geology
    Structural geology
    Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories. The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover information about the history of deformation in the rocks, and...

     (University of Potsdam
    University of Potsdam
    The University of Potsdam is a German university, situated across four campuses in Potsdam, Brandenburg, including the New Palace of Sanssouci and the Park Babelsberg.- Profile :...

    )

2003

  • Winfried Denk
    Winfried Denk
    Winfried Denk is a German physicist and neurobiologist, director of the Max-Plack-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. He is noted for being the first to implement two-photon microscopy while a postdoctoral fellow in Watt W. Webb's lab in 1990...

     - medical optics
    Optics
    Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...

     (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
    Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, is a facility of the Max Planck Society for basic medical research. Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof , Richard Kuhn , Walther Bothe , André Michel Lwoff , Rudolf...

    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg
    -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

    )
  • Hélène Esnault
    Hélène Esnault
    Hélène Esnault is a French mathematician. She is a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She worked previously at the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn and at the University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.In 2003 she won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with...

     and Eckart Viehweg
    Eckart Viehweg
    Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen.In 2003 he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with his wife, Hélène Esnault....

     - algebraic geometry
    Algebraic geometry
    Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which combines techniques of abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with the language and the problems of geometry. It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex...

     (University of Duisburg and Essen)
  • Gerhard Huisken - geometrical analysis (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
    The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein’s theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational wave astronomy...

     (Albert Einstein Institute), Golm b. Potsdam)
  • Rupert Klein - computational fluid dynamics
    Computational fluid dynamics
    Computational fluid dynamics, usually abbreviated as CFD, is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

     and Potsdamer Institut für Klimafolgenforschung)
  • Albrecht Koschorke - Neuere deutsche Literatur (University of Constance)
  • Roland Lill - cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

    /biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Christof Niehrs - molecular development biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg
    German Cancer Research Center
    The German Cancer Research Center , is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany...

    )
  • Ferdi Schüth
    Ferdi Schüth
    Ferdi Schüth is a German chemist.He was born 8 July 1960 in Allangen/Warstein.He studied chemistry at the University of Münster from 1978 till 1984 and law from 1983 till 1988. After finishing his phd thesis on inorganic chemistry at the University of Münster in 1988 he did a postdoctoral studies...

     - inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

     (Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr)
  • Hans-Peter Seidel - graphics
    Graphics
    Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...

     (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

    )
  • Hubert Wolf - history of Christianity
    History of Christianity
    The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, its followers and the Church with its various denominations, from the first century to the present. Christianity was founded in the 1st century by the followers of Jesus of Nazareth who they believed to be the Christ or chosen one of God...

    /Catholic theology (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )

2002

  • Carmen Birchmeier-Kohler - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin-Buch)
  • Wolfgang Dahmen
    Wolfgang Dahmen
    Wolfgang Dahmen is a German mathematician working in approximation theory, numerical analysis, and partial differential equations. In 2002 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He was also a taekwondo athlete.-References:...

     - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Wolf-Christian Dullo - paleontology
    Paleontology
    Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

     (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel)
  • Bruno Eckhardt - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Michael Famulok - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Christian Haass
    Christian Haass
    Christian Haass is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience.Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a...

     - pathological biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Franz-Ulrich Hartl
    Franz-Ulrich Hartl
    Franz-Ulrich Hartl is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding....

     - cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

     (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
    Martinsried
    Martinsried is a section of Planegg, a municipality neighboring Munich, Germany. Martinsried lies about 15 km southwest of Munich's city center.Martinsried is mostly known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and the...

    )
  • Thomas Hengartner - cultural anthropology
    Cultural anthropology
    Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation,...

     (University of Hamburg
    University of Hamburg
    The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

    )
  • Reinhold Kliegl - general
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

     psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

     (University of Potsdam
    University of Potsdam
    The University of Potsdam is a German university, situated across four campuses in Potsdam, Brandenburg, including the New Palace of Sanssouci and the Park Babelsberg.- Profile :...

    )
  • Wolfgang Kowalsky - optoelectronics
    Optoelectronics
    Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that source, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared, in addition to visible light...

     (Technische Universität Braunschweig
    Technische Universität Braunschweig
    The TU Braunschweig is the oldest University of Technology in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the most renowned and largest German Institutes of Technology. Today it has about 13,000 students, making it the third largest...

    )
  • Karl Leo
    Karl Leo
    Karl Leo is a German physicist.-Vita:Leo studied physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and obtained the Diplomphysiker degree with a thesis on solar cells under supervision of Adolf Goetzberger at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme...

     - solid state physics (Technische Universität Dresden)
  • Frank Vollertsen
    Frank Vollertsen
    Frank Vollertsen is a German scientist and the director of the "Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik" .He is the recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2002.- External links :* * - References :...

     - Umformende and Spannende Fertigungstechnik (University of Paderborn
    University of Paderborn
    The University of Paderborn in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded in 1972. 15,228 students were enrolled at the university as of December 2010....

    )

2001

  • Jochen Feldmann - optoelectronical component
    Electronic component
    An electronic component is a basic electronic element and may be available in a discrete form having two or more electrical terminals . These are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, in order to create an electronic circuit with a particular function...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Eduard Christian Hurt - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Hans Keppler - mineralogy
    Mineralogy
    Mineralogy is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization.-History:Early writing...

     (University of Tübingen)
  • Arthur Konnerth - neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Ulrich Konrad - musicology
    Musicology
    Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )
  • Martin Krönke - immunology
    Immunology
    Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

    /cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

     (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Joachim Küpper - Literaturwissenschaftliche Romanistik (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Christoph Markschies - history of Christianity
    History of Christianity
    The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, its followers and the Church with its various denominations, from the first century to the present. Christianity was founded in the 1st century by the followers of Jesus of Nazareth who they believed to be the Christ or chosen one of God...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Wolfgang Marquardt - process systems engineering
    Process engineering
    Process engineering focuses on the design, operation, control, and optimization of chemical, physical, and biological processes through the aid of systematic computer-based methods...

     (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Helge Ritter - informatics
    Informatics (academic field)
    Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

     (University of Bielefeld)
  • Günter Ziegler - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Technische Universität Berlin)

2000

  • Klaus Fiedler - cognitive social psychology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Peter Greil
    Peter Greil
    Peter Greil is German scientist. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000 and is a professor at the University of Erlangen.-References:*...

     - Werkstoffwissenschaften (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
    Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
    The Universität Erlangen Nürnberg is a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having five Schools, 308 chairs, and 12,000 employees. There are 28,735 students enrolled at the university, of which about 2/3 are...

    )
  • Matthias W. Hentze
    Matthias Hentze
    Matthias W. Hentze is a German scientist.- Biography :Hentze obtained his Abitur from the Ratsgymnasium in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in 1978. He studied medicine at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany, and at the Medical Schools of Southampton, Oxford, Glasgow, and Cambridge, UK...

     - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory
    The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a molecular biology research institution supported by 20 European countries and Australia as associate member state. EMBL was created in 1974 and is an intergovernmental organisation funded by public research money from its member states...

    )
  • Peter M. Herzig - Geochemie and Lagerstättenkande (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
    Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
    The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg is a small German University of Technology with about 5000 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony...

    )
  • Reinhard Jahn - cellular biology (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....

     (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

    )
  • Aditi Lahiri
    Aditi Lahiri
    Aditi Lahiri is an India born German linguist at the University of Oxford. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.-Early life:She was educated at the Bethune College, and later at the University of Calcutta...

     - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaften (University of Constance)
  • Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
    Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
    Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is a German academic and senior judge. She sits on the second senate of the Bundesverfassungsgericht , having succeeded Jutta Limbach in this position in April 2002....

     - Öffentliches Recht (University of Bielefeld)
  • Dieter Lüst
    Dieter Lüst
    Dieter Lüst is a German physicist, full professor for mathematical physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich since 2004 and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. His research focusses on string theory...

     - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (Humboldt University of Berlin
    Humboldt University of Berlin
    The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

    )
  • Stefan Müller
    Stefan Müller (mathematician)
    Stefan Müller is a German mathematician and currently a professor at the University of Bonn. He has been one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in 1996 and was acting there until 2008.He his well known for his research in analysis and the calculus...

     - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig was founded on March 1, 1996.At the institute scientists work on projects which apply mathematics in various areas of natural sciences, in particular physics, biology, chemistry and material science.Main research areas are*...

    , Leipzig
    Leipzig
    Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

    )
  • Manfred Pinkal - computational linguistics
    Computational linguistics
    Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....

     (Saarland University
    Saarland University
    Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

    )
  • Ilme Schlichting - biophysics
    Biophysics
    Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems. Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems...

     (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology
    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology is located in Dortmund, Germany next to the university. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society .The institute is divided into four departments:...

    , Dortmund
    Dortmund
    Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

    )
  • Friedrich Temps and Hans-Joachim Werner - Physikalische Chemie (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel) and Theoretische Chemie (University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart
    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

    )
  • Martin Wegener - Festkörperphysik (University of Karlsruhe)

1999

  • Ekkard Brinksmeier - Fertigungstechnik (University of Bremen
    University of Bremen
    The University of Bremen is a university of approximately 23,500 people from 126 countries that are studying, teaching, researching, and working in Bremen, Germany...

    )
  • Bernd Bukau - cellular biology (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Joachim Cuntz - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Alois Fürstner - organometalic chemistry (Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graf - Evangelische Theology (University of Augsburg
    University of Augsburg
    The University of Augsburg is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 7 Faculties....

    )
  • Ulrich Herbert
    Ulrich Herbert
    Ulrich Herbert is a German historian. He is a professor at the University of Freiburg, and a specialist in German history during World War II. In 1999, Herbert received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in modern and contemporary history...

     - modern
    Modern history
    Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...

     and contemporary history
    Contemporary history
    Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century. In the widest context of this use,...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Martin Johannes Lohse - pharmacology
    Pharmacology
    Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )
  • Volker Mosbrugger - paleontology
    Paleontology
    Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

     (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...

    )
  • Hans-Christian Pape - neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...

     (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg
    Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg
    The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg was founded in 1993 and is one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university in Magdeburg has about 13,000 students in nine faculties. There are 11,700 papers published in international journals from this institute...

    )
  • Joachim Ullrich - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)

1998

  • Heinz Breer - zoology
    Zoology
    Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

     (University of Hohenheim
    University of Hohenheim
    The University of Hohenheim is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1818 it is Stuttgart's oldest university and one of Germany's leading universities both in agricultural sciences and economics.-History:...

    )
  • Nikolaus P. Ernsting and Klaus Rademann - physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...

     (Humboldt University of Berlin
    Humboldt University of Berlin
    The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

    )
  • Hans-Jörg Fecht - metallic materials (University of Ulm
    University of Ulm
    The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

    )
  • Ute Frevert
    Ute Frevert
    Ute Frevert is a German historian. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Germany, with an interest in social and gender history. She currently serves as the executive director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development...

     - Neuere Geschichte (University of Bielefeld)
  • Wolf-Bernd Frommer - molecular plant physiology
    Plant physiology
    Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Closely related fields include plant morphology , plant ecology , phytochemistry , cell biology, and molecular biology.Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition,...

     (University of Tübingen)
  • Christian Griesinger - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Regine Hengge-Aronis - microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

     (University of Constance)
  • Onno Oncken - geology
    Geology
    Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

     (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam
    Potsdam
    Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

     and Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Hermann Parzinger - Vor- and Frühgeschichte Easeurope (German Archaeological Institute
    German Archaeological Institute
    The German Archaeological Institute is an institution of research within the field of archaeology , and a "scientific corporation", with parentage of the federal Foreign Office of Germany-Origin:...

    , Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

    )
  • Ingo Rehberg - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg
    Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg
    The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg was founded in 1993 and is one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university in Magdeburg has about 13,000 students in nine faculties. There are 11,700 papers published in international journals from this institute...

    )
  • Dietmar Vestweber - cellular biology/biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Annette Zippelius - solid state physics (Georg August University of Göttingen)

1997

  • Thomas Boehm - molecular development biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg)
  • Wolfgang Ertmer - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (University of Hannover)
  • Angela D. Friederici
    Angela D. Friederici
    Angela Friederici is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychology and linguistics...

     - neuropsychology
    Neuropsychology
    Neuropsychology studies the structure and function of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors. The term neuropsychology has been applied to lesion studies in humans and animals. It has also been applied to efforts to record electrical activity from individual cells in...

     (Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research, Leipzig
    Leipzig
    Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

    )
  • Georg Fuchs - microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Jean Karen Gregory - material science (Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...

    )
  • Andreas Kablitz - Romanische philology/Italianistik (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Matthias Kleiner - sheet metal forming (Technical University of Cottbus)
  • Paul Knochel - organometallic chemistry
    Organometallic chemistry
    Organometallic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds containing bonds between carbon and a metal. Since many compounds without such bonds are chemically similar, an alternative may be compounds containing metal-element bonds of a largely covalent character...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Elisabeth Knust - development
    Developmental biology
    Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and "morphogenesis", which is the process that gives rise to tissues, organs and anatomy.- Related fields of study...

     genetics
    Genetics
    Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

     (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
  • Stephan W. Koch - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Christian F. Lehner - molecular genetics
    Genetics
    Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

     (University of Bayreuth
    University of Bayreuth
    The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded in 1975 as a campus university focusing on international collaboration and interdisciplinarity...

    )
  • Stefan M. Maul - ancient orientalism
    Orientalism
    Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Ernst Mayr - information theory
    Information theory
    Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...

     (Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...

    )
  • Gerhard Wörner - mineralogy
    Mineralogy
    Mineralogy is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization.-History:Early writing...

    /geochemistry
    Geochemistry
    The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks, water, and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space, and...

     (Georg August University of Göttingen)

1996

  • Eduard Arzt - metallic science (University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart
    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

     and Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
    Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Metals Research is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Stuttgart. The institute was founded 1921 as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in Berlin and closed 1932. 1934 it was reopened in Stuttgart and incorporated into the Max Planck...

    , Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

    )
  • Hans Werner Diehl - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (University of Duisburg and Essen)
  • Gerd Faltings
    Gerd Faltings
    Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathematics and in 1981 he got the venia legendi in mathematics, both from the University...

     - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
    Bonn
    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

    )
  • Ulf-Ingo Flügge - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     of plants, (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Wolfgang Klein - linguistics
    Linguistics
    Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

     (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
    The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute for scientific research in the area of psycholinguistics. The institute is located in Nijmegen in the province of Gelderland in The Netherlands. The institute is a member of the German Max Planck Society and is the only institute of...

    , Nijmegen)
  • Dieter Langewiesche - modern history
    Modern history
    Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...

     (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...

    )
  • Reinhart Georg Lührmann - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Joachim Reitner - paleontology
    Paleontology
    Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

     (Georg August University of Göttingen)
  • Michael Reth - immunology
    Immunology
    Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

     (Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology
    Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology
    The Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research institute that conducts basic research in modern immunobiology and developmental biology....

    , Freiburg
    Freiburg
    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...

    )
  • Wolfgang Schnick - solid state chemistry (University of Bayreuth
    University of Bayreuth
    The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded in 1975 as a campus university focusing on international collaboration and interdisciplinarity...

    )
  • Winfried Schulze - history
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

     of early modern Europe
    Early modern Europe
    Early modern Europe is the term used by historians to refer to a period in the history of Europe which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Reinhard Zimmermann - history of law and civil law
    Civil law (legal system)
    Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different...

     (University of Regensburg
    University of Regensburg
    The University of Regensburg is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on July 18, 1962 by the Landtag of Bavaria as the fourth full-fledged university in Bavaria...

    )

1995

  • Siegfried Bethke - elementary particle physics (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Niels Birbaumer - psychophysiology
    Psychophysiology
    Psychophysiology is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. While psychophysiology was a general broad field of research in the 1960s and 1970s, it has now become quite specialized, and has branched into subspecializations...

     (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...

    )
  • Hans-Joachim Freund - physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...

     (Ruhr University Bochum
    Ruhr University
    Ruhr University Bochum , located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II...

    )
  • Martin Groetschel - applied mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Axel Haverich - surgery
    Surgery
    Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

     (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel)
  • Gerhard Hirzinger - robotics
    Robotics
    Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

     (German Aerospace Center
    German Aerospace Center
    The German Aerospace Center is the national centre for aerospace, energy and transportation research of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has multiple locations throughout Germany. Its headquarters are located in Cologne. It is engaged in a wide range of research and development projects in...

    , Oberpfaffenhofen
    Oberpfaffenhofen
    Oberpfaffenhofen is a village which is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. It is 20 kilometers from the city center of Munich....

    )
  • Thomas Jentsch - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (University of Hamburg
    University of Hamburg
    The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

    )
  • Gerd Jürgens
    Gerd Jürgens
    Professor Gerd Jürgens is a plant developmental biologist currently holding the posts of Director of the Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Head of the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen...

     - molecular plant development (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...

    )
  • Wolfgang Schleich - quantum optics
    Quantum optics
    Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter.- History of quantum optics :...

     (University of Ulm
    University of Ulm
    The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

    )
  • Manfred G. Schmidt
    Manfred G. Schmidt
    Manfred G. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg.- Education :...

     - political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Thomas Schweizer (†) - cultural anthropology
    Cultural anthropology
    Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation,...

     (University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Elmar Weiler - plant physiology
    Plant physiology
    Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Closely related fields include plant morphology , plant ecology , phytochemistry , cell biology, and molecular biology.Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition,...

     (Ruhr University Bochum
    Ruhr University
    Ruhr University Bochum , located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II...

    )
  • Emo Welzl - informatics
    Informatics (academic field)
    Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )

1994

  • Gisela Anton
    Gisela Anton
    Gisela Anton is a German physicist.-Life:Gisela Anton began studying physics in Bonn in 1973. In 1975, she entered and won the Young Scientists' Award . At this competition she met Frank Anton, whom she married in 1979. After earning her Ph.D...

     - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Manfred Broy
    Manfred Broy
    Manfred Broy is a German computer scientist.Broy is a professor in the Institut für Informatik at the Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.- Selected books :...

     and Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog - computer science
    Computer science
    Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

     (Munich University of Technology and University of Oldenburg)
  • Ulrich R. Christensen - geophysics
    Geophysics
    Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

     (Georg August University of Göttingen)
  • Ulf Eysel - neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...

     (Ruhr University Bochum
    Ruhr University
    Ruhr University Bochum , located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II...

    )
  • Theodor Geisel - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Peter Gruss
    Peter Gruss
    Peter Gruss is a German developmental biologist, and the current president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft...

     - cellular biology (MPI for biophysical chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....

    , Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

    )
  • Wolfgang Hackbusch
    Wolfgang Hackbusch
    Wolfgang Hackbusch is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method...

     - numerical mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel)
  • Adrienne Héritier and Helmut Willke
    Helmut Willke
    Helmut Willke is a German sociologist who studies the effect of globalization on modern society. He coined the term Atopia to denote a society that exists without borders, with no national identity. He is currently professor at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.-References:...

     - sociology
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

    /politology (University of Bielefeld)
  • Stefan Jentsch
    Stefan Jentsch
    Stefan Jentsch is a German cell biologist. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He is known for his pioneer work in the field of protein modifications by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers.- Life :Jentsch studied biology at the Free University...

     - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Glenn W. Most
    Glenn W. Most
    Glenn Warren Most is a classicist and comparatist originating from the US, but also working in Germany and Italy.Most studied classics at Harvard from 1968 on and received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Classics in 1972...

     - classical
    Classics
    Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

     philology
    Philology
    Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Johann Mulzer
    Johann Mulzer
    Johann Hermann Wolfgang Mulzer is a German organic chemist, best known for his work in total synthesis. Since 1996, he has been a professor of chemistry at the University of Vienna . He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1994 and Emil Fischer Medal in 2010.-References:...

     - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Peter Schäfer - Jewish studies
    Jewish studies
    Jewish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )

1993

  • Christian von Bar - international privatright (Universität Osnabrück)
  • Johannes Buchmann and Claus-Peter Schnorr - information theory
    Information theory
    Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...

     (Universität Saarbrücken and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Dieter Enders
    Dieter Enders
    Dieter Enders is an organic chemist who has done work developing asymmetric synthesis, in particular using modified prolines as asymmetric auxiliaries. The most widely appled of his chiral auxiliaries are the complementary SAMP and RAMP auxialliaries, which allow for asymmetric alpha-alkylation of...

     - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Gunter Fischer - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Michael Frotscher - neuroanatomy
    Neuroanatomy
    Neuroanatomy is the study of the anatomy and organization of the nervous system. In contrast to animals with radial symmetry, whose nervous system consists of a distributed network of cells, animals with bilateral symmetry have segregated, defined nervous systems, and thus we can begin to speak of...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Jürgen Jost - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (Universität Bochum)
  • Regine Kahmann - molecular genetics
    Molecular genetics
    Molecular genetics is the field of biology and genetics that studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation. Molecular genetics employs the methods of genetics and molecular biology...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Wolfgang Krätschmer
    Wolfgang Krätschmer
    Wolfgang Krätschmer is a German physicist.Krätschmer studied physics in Berlin. After his Diplom he went to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and earned his PhD there in 1971 with a thesis on artificially etched tracks of accelerated heavy ions in quartz...

     - nuclear physics
    Nuclear physics
    Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei. The most commonly known applications of nuclear physics are nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons technology, but the research has provided application in many fields, including those...

     (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)
  • Klaus Petermann - high frequency technics (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Wolfgang Prinz
    Wolfgang Prinz
    Wolfgang Prinz is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and an internationally recognized expert in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind...

     - psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

     (MPI für für Psychologische Forschung, München)
  • Rudolf G. Wagner
    Rudolf G. Wagner
    Rudolf G. Wagner is a Professor of Department of Chinese Studies in University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also the Secretary-General of European Association of Chinese Studies .- Publications :...

     - sinology
    Sinology
    Sinology in general use is the study of China and things related to China, but, especially in the American academic context, refers more strictly to the study of classical language and literature, and the philological approach...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Jürgen Warnatz
    Jürgen Warnatz
    Jürgen Warnatz was a German physicist. Between 1999 and 2004 he served as managing director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany...

     - technical combustion
    Internal combustion engine
    The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high-temperature and high -pressure gases produced by combustion apply direct force to some component of the engine...

     (University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart
    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

    )

1992

  • Georg W. Bornkamm - virology
    Virology
    Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy...

     (GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit München)
  • Christopher Deninger
    Christopher Deninger
    Christopher Deninger is a German mathematician at the University of Münster. He made notable contributions to number theory and algebraic geometry....

    , Michael Rapoport
    Michael Rapoport
    Michael Rapoport is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn...

    , Peter Schneider and Thomas Zink
    Thomas Zink
    Thomas Zink is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bielefeld....

     - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    , Bergische University Wuppertal, University of Cologne
    University of Cologne
    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

     and University of Bielefeld)
  • Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
    Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
    Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit b. is a distinguished German Japanologist and Translator. In 1992 she was awarded Germany's most prestigious prize for distinction in research, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.- Life :...

     - japanology
    Japanology
    Japanese Studies is a term generally used in Europe to describe the historical and cultural study of Japan; in North America, the academic field is usually referred to as Japanese studies, which includes contemporary social sciences as well as classical humanistic fields.European Japanology is the...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Jürgen Kocka
    Jürgen Kocka
    Jürgen Kocka is a German historian.A university professor and former president of the Social Science Research Center Berlin , Kocka is a major figure in the new Social History, especially as represented by the Bielefeld School...

     - history of sociology
    History of sociology
    Sociology emerged from enlightenment thought, shortly after the French Revolution, as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense, however, has origins in the common stock...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Joachim Menz - Markscheidewesen (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
    Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
    The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg is a small German University of Technology with about 5000 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony...

    )
  • Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Burkhard Monien - informatics
    Informatics (academic field)
    Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

     (University of Paderborn
    University of Paderborn
    The University of Paderborn in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded in 1972. 15,228 students were enrolled at the university as of December 2010....

    )
  • Jürgen Mlynek - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (University of Constance)
  • Svante Pääbo
    Svante Pääbo
    Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.He earned his PhD from Uppsala...

     - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Wolfgang Raible - romanistics (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Hans-Georg Rammensee - immunology
    Immunology
    Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

     (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells...

    , Tübingen
    Tübingen
    Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

    )
  • Jan Veizer
    Jan Veizer
    Ján Veizer is the Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysis, of Bochum Ruhr University, he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry until 2004...

     - geochemistry
    Geochemistry
    The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks, water, and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space, and...

     of sediments (Ruhr University Bochum
    Ruhr University
    Ruhr University Bochum , located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II...

    )

1991

  • Gerhard Ertl
    Gerhard Ertl
    Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany...

      - physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...

     (Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG
    Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG
    The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany....

    , Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

    )
  • Dieter Fenske
    Dieter Fenske
    Prof. Dr. Dieter Fenske is a German inorganic chemist.Fenske studied chemistry at the University of Münster, received his PhD in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978...

     and Michael Veith - inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

     (University of Karlsruhe and Saarland University
    Saarland University
    Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

    )
  • Ernst O. Göbel - solid state physics (University of Marburg)
  • Dieter Häussinger - internal medicine
    Internal medicine
    Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Karl-Heinz Hoffmann - applied mathematics
    Applied mathematics
    Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge...

     (University of Augsburg
    University of Augsburg
    The University of Augsburg is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 7 Faculties....

    )
  • Randolf Menzel - zoology
    Zoology
    Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

    /neurobiology (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Rolf Müller - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

    /molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (University of Marburg)
  • Hermann Riedel
    Hermann Riedel
    Hermann Riedel was a German composer.Riedel studied piano and composition at the Vienna Conservatory with Josef Dachs and Felix Otto Dessoff. In 1874, he became a pianist correpetiteur at the Vienna Hofoper. In 1878, he settled in Braunschweig, where he was made music director of the Royal Opera...

     - material mechanics (Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik Freiburg
    Freiburg
    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...

    )
  • Hans-Ulrich Schmincke - mineralogy
    Mineralogy
    Mineralogy is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization.-History:Early writing...

    /vulcanology (Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissenschaften Kiel
    Kiel
    Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

    )
  • Michael Stolleis - history of law (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Martin Warnke - history of art
    History of art
    The History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...

     (University of Hamburg
    University of Hamburg
    The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

    )

1990

  • Reinhard Genzel
    Reinhard Genzel
    Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist.-Life:Genzel studied physics at the University of Bonn where he did his PhD in 1978 and, in the same year, his OhD thesis on radioastronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...

     - astrophysics
    Astrophysics
    Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...

     (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
    The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics...

    , Garching
    Garching bei München
    Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.-Location:...

    )
  • Rainer Greger - physiology
    Physiology
    Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

     (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
  • Ingrid Grummt - microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )
  • Martin Jansen and Arndt Simon - inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

     and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research is part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in Büsnau which is part of Stuttgart, Germany....

    , Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

    )
  • Bert Hölldobler
    Bert Hölldobler
    Bert Hölldobler is a German behavioral biologist and Sociobiologist whose primary study subjects are social insects and in particular ants. He is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants with Edward O. Wilson...

     - zoology
    Zoology
    Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )
  • Konrad Kleinknecht - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...

    )
  • Norbert Peters
    Norbert Peters (engineer)
    Norbert Peters is a distinguished professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and one of the world-wide authorities in the field of combustion engineering. He currently heads the Institut für Technische Verbrennung ...

     - combustion
    Combustion
    Combustion or burning is the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species. The release of heat can result in the production of light in the form of either glowing or a flame...

     engineering
    Engineering
    Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

     (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Helmut Schwarz
    Helmut Schwarz
    Helmut Schwarz is a highly-cited German organic chemist. He has been a professor of chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin since 1978, and president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since January 2008.-References:...

     - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Dieter Stöffler - planetology (University of Münster
    University of Münster
    The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...

    )
  • Richard Wagner - material science (GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
    Geesthacht
    Geesthacht is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, 34 km southeast of Hamburg on the right bank of the river Elbe.-History:*Around 800: A church is documented....

    )

1989

  • Heinrich Betz - neurobiology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Claus Wilhelm Canaris - civil law
    Civil law (legal system)
    Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Herbert Gleiter - material science (Saarland University
    Saarland University
    Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

    )
  • Theodor W. Hänsch  - laser physics
    Laser Physics
    Laser Physics is an international scientific journal published by Nauka/Interperiodica. It is distributed through the Springer.-Topics covered:The journal specializes in laser physics, but also publishes papers about:...

     (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

     and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching
    Garching bei München
    Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.-Location:...

    )
  • Joachim Milberg
    Joachim Milberg
    Joachim Milberg is a German Professor of Production Engineering and past CEO of BMW AG. He is now Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG....

     - production technics
    Technics
    Technics may refer to:* Technics turntables, no longer in production.* Technics , a brand name of the Panasonic Corporation* An anglicization of the Ancient Greek term techne, used primarily in media theory...

     (Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...

    )
  • Jürgen Mittelstraß
    Jürgen Mittelstraß
    Jürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.He was born in Düsseldorf in 1936 and studied philosophy, history and protestant theology at Bonn, Erlangen, Hamburg and Oxford from 1956 till 1961.He received his Ph.D...

     - philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     (University of Constance)
  • Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
    Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
    Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff is a theoretical chemist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany....

     - theoretical chemistry
    Theoretical chemistry
    Theoretical chemistry seeks to provide theories that explain chemical observations. Often, it uses mathematical and computational methods that, at times, require advanced knowledge. Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of...

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Manfred T. Reetz - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Michael Sarnthein and Jörn Thiede - marine geology
    Marine geology
    Marine geology or geological oceanography involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal margins...

     (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel and Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften Kiel
    Kiel
    Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

    )
  • Reinhard Stock - experimental nuclear physics
    Nuclear physics
    Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei. The most commonly known applications of nuclear physics are nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons technology, but the research has provided application in many fields, including those...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Wolfgang Stremmel - internal medicine
    Internal medicine
    Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

     (Heinrich Heine University)

1988

  • Karl Joachim Ebeling - high frequency technics
    High frequency
    High frequency radio frequencies are between 3 and 30 MHz. Also known as the decameter band or decameter wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decameters . Frequencies immediately below HF are denoted Medium-frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Very high frequency...

     (Technische Universität Braunschweig
    Technische Universität Braunschweig
    The TU Braunschweig is the oldest University of Technology in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the most renowned and largest German Institutes of Technology. Today it has about 13,000 students, making it the third largest...

    )
  • Lothar Gall - new history
    New history
    For New history see:* James Harvey Robinson for "new history" in early 20th century American historiography* Nouvelle histoire for "new history" in late 20th century French historiography* New Mormon history for Mormon history in a historical context...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Günter Harder - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger - older German literature science (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
    Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...

    )
  • Werner Hildenbrand
    Werner Hildenbrand
    Werner Hildenbrand is a German economist and mathematician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, were he received his Diplom in mathematics, applied mathematics and physics in 1961. He continued his education at the University of Heidelberg and received his Ph.D...

     - social economics (University of Bonn
    University of Bonn
    The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

    )
  • Ingo Müller - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Herbert W. Roesky
    Herbert W. Roesky
    Herbert Roesky, , is an internationally renowned inorganic chemist.-Biography:Professor Herbert W. Roesky was born in 1935 in Laukischken. He obtained his doctorate from Göttingen and worked at Du Pont in the US before returning to his alma mater where he retired in 2004...

     and George Michael Sheldrick - inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

     (Georg August University of Göttingen)
  • Wolfram Saenger
    Wolfram Saenger
    Wolfram Saenger is a German biochemist and protein crystallographer. In his research career spanning over 30 years he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Harvard University and the Free University of Berlin, where he still heads the Institute for Crystallography...

     and Volker Erdmann - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (Free University of Berlin
    Free University of Berlin
    Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

    )
  • Günther Schütz - molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

     (German Cancer Research Center
    German Cancer Research Center
    The German Cancer Research Center , is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany...

    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg
    -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

    )
  • Hans Wolfgang Spiess - physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry
    Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...

     (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
    Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research is a scientific research institute located in Mainz, Germany. It concentrates on foundational research on macromolecular materials. The institute was founded in 1983...

    , Mainz
    Mainz
    Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

    )
  • Karl Otto Stetter - microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

     (University of Regensburg
    University of Regensburg
    The University of Regensburg is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on July 18, 1962 by the Landtag of Bavaria as the fourth full-fledged university in Bavaria...

    )
  • Thomas Weiland - high energy physics (DESY (German electron synchrotron)
    DESY
    The DESY is the biggest German research center for particle physics, with sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen....

    , Hamburg
    Hamburg
    -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

    )

1987

  • Gerhard Abstreiter - semiconductor
    Semiconductor
    A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

      physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     (Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...

    )
  • Knut Borchardt - history of economics/social economics (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
    The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , commonly known as the University of Munich or LMU, is a university in Munich, Germany...

    )
  • Nils Claussen - ceramic materials
    Ceramic materials
    Ceramic materials are inorganic, non-metallic materials and things made from them. They may be crystalline or partly crystalline. They are formed by the action of heat and subsequent cooling...

     (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg)
  • Bernd Giese
    Bernd Giese
    Bernd Giese is a chemist at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland who specializes in the bio-organic chemistry and synthesis of radicals in biological systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1969, and his Habilitation from the University of Freiburg in 1976...

     - organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry
    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

     (Darmstadt University of Technology
    Darmstadt University of Technology
    The Technische Universität Darmstadt, abbreviated TU Darmstadt, is a university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany...

    )
  • Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Hubert Schmidbaur - inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry
    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

     (Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...

    )
  • Günter Hotz
    Günter Hotz
    Günter Hotz is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuitsand computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.Hotz...

    , Kurt Mehlhorn
    Kurt Mehlhorn
    Kurt Mehlhorn is a German computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.-Education:...

     and Wolfgang Paul - Computer Science
    Computer science
    Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

     (Saarland University
    Saarland University
    Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

    )
  • Erwin Neher
    Erwin Neher
    Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist.Erwin Neher studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US...

      and Bert Sakmann
    Bert Sakmann
    -External links:*...

     - biophysical chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

     (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....

     / Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

  • Friedrich A. Seifert - mineralogy
    Mineralogy
    Mineralogy is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization.-History:Early writing...

      (University of Bayreuth
    University of Bayreuth
    The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded in 1975 as a campus university focusing on international collaboration and interdisciplinarity...

    )
  • Rudolf K. Thauer
    Rudolf K. Thauer
    Rudolf K. Thauer is a biologist and a retired professor of microbiology and heads the Emeritus group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Prof...

     - biochemical microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

     (Philipps University of Marburg
    Philipps University of Marburg
    The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse as the world's oldest university dating back to a Protestant foundation...

    )
  • Hans-Peter Zenner - Otolaryngology
    Otolaryngology
    Otolaryngology or ENT is the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders....

    /cell biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )

1986

  • Géza Alföldy
    Géza Alföldy
    Géza Alföldy was a Hungarian Ancient historian.-Life:Géza Alföldy was born in Budapest. He studied at the University of Budapest from 1953 to 1958, where he in 1959 received a doctorate...

     - ancient history
    Ancient history
    Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

     (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)
  • Dietrich Dörner
    Dietrich Dörner
    Prof. Dr. Dietrich Dörner is emeritus professor for General and Theoretical Psychology at the at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany....

     - psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

     (Otto-Friedrich University
    Otto-Friedrich University
    The University of Bamberg in Bamberg, Germany, is simultaneously one of the oldest and one of the newest universities in Bavaria. It specializes in the Humanities, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Economics and Applied Computer Science.- History :...

    )
  • Jürgen Habermas
    Jürgen Habermas
    Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...

     - philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Otto Ludwig Lange and Ulrich Heber - ecology
    Ecology
    Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

     and biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     (University of Würzburg
    University of Würzburg
    The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

    )
  • Hartmut Michel
    Hartmut Michel
    Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.He was born 18 July 1948 in Ludwigsburg. After compulsory military service, he studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, working for his final year at Dieter Oesterhelt’s laboratory on ATPase activity of halobacteria.In 1986, he...

      - biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

     (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The Institute was "founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of...

    , Martinsried
    Martinsried
    Martinsried is a section of Planegg, a municipality neighboring Munich, Germany. Martinsried lies about 15 km southwest of Munich's city center.Martinsried is mostly known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and the...

    )
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B...

      and Herbert Jäckle - biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

     (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells...

    , Tübingen
    Tübingen
    Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

    )
  • Peter R. Sahm - metallurgy
    Metallurgy
    Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...

     (RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen
    RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

    )
  • Fritz Peter Schäfer - laser physics
    Laser Physics
    Laser Physics is an international scientific journal published by Nauka/Interperiodica. It is distributed through the Springer.-Topics covered:The journal specializes in laser physics, but also publishes papers about:...

     (MPI für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....

    )
  • Frank Steglich
    Frank Steglich
    Frank Steglich is a German physicist.He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a number of other recognitions...

     - solid state physics (Darmstadt University of Technology
    Darmstadt University of Technology
    The Technische Universität Darmstadt, abbreviated TU Darmstadt, is a university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany...

    )
  • Albert H. Walenta
    Albert H. Walenta
    Albert H. Walenta is professor for experimental physics at the University of Siegen in Germany.In 1986 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.-External links:*...

     - experimental physics
    Experimental physics
    Within the field of physics, experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe...

     (University of Siegen
    University of Siegen
    The University of Siegen in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, was founded in 1972. 14,100 students were enrolled at the university as of October 2010.-Faculties:University of Siegen offers in total 126 degree programmes across four faculties:...

    )
  • Julius Wess
    Julius Wess
    Julius Wess was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry...

     - theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics
    Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

     (University of Karlsruhe)

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