The Wittgenstein-Preis is the highest Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n science award.

It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund

Austrian Science Fund

The Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastructure...

 on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science.
The prize money of 1.5 million euro is tied to research activities in the following six years.

The recipients are selected by an international jury of experts. The same jury also selects the recipients of the related Start-Preis

Start-Preis

The Start-Preis is the highest Austrian award for scientists under the age of 35.It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science....

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Recipients

• 2011: Gerhard J.Herndl
• 2011: Jan-Michael Peters
• 2010: Wolfgang Lutz
• 2009: Jürgen Knoblich
• 2009: Gerhard Widmer
• 2008: Markus Arndt
• 2007: Rudolf Zechner
• 2007: Christian Krattenthaler
• 2006: Hannes-Jörg Schmiedmayer
• 2005: Barry J. Dickson
• 2005: Rudolf Grimm
  Rudolf Grimm
  Rudolf Grimm is an experimental physicist from Austria. His work centres on ultracold atoms and quantum gases. He was the first scientist worldwide who, with his team, succeeded in realizing a Bose-Einstein condensation from molecules.-Career:Grimm graduated in physics from the University of...
  
  
• 2004: Walter Pohl
  Walter Pohl
  Walter Pohl is an Austrian historian. His area of expertise is the history of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages....
  
  
• 2003: Renée Schroeder
• 2002: 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.....
  
  
• 2001: Meinrad Busslinger
• 2001: Heribert Hirt
• 2000: Andre Gingrich
• 2000: Peter Markowich
• 1999: Kim Nasmyth
  Kim Nasmyth
  Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry . Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford...
  
  
• 1998: Georg Gottlob
  Georg Gottlob
  Georg Gottlob FRS is an Oxford-based Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.Gottlob obtained his PhD in computer science at Vienna University of Technology in 1981...
  
  
• 1998: Walter Schachermayer
• 1998: Peter Zoller
  Peter Zoller
  Peter Zoller is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He is Professor at the University of Innsbruck and works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on quantum computing and quantum communication and for bridging quantum optics and solid state...
  
  
• 1997: Erich Gornik
• 1997: Antonius Matzke
• 1996: Ruth Wodak
  Ruth Wodak
  Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics since 1991...
  
  
• 1996: Erwin Friedrich Wagner

External links

• Wittgenstein-Preis page of the Austrian Science Fund
• Wittgenstein Award Laureate (web page with information on recipients)