The Aronson Prize (german: Aronson-Preis) is a prize awarded for achievements in microbiology and

immunology Immunology is a branch of medicineImmunology for Medical Students, Roderick Nairn, Matthew Helbert, Mosby, 2007 and biology that covers the medical study of immune systems in humans, animals, plants and sapient species. In such we can see the ...

. It was established by the will of the pediatrician and bacteriologist Hans Aronson and has been awarded since 1921. Aronson bequeathed a large part of his estate to the establishment of the prize. The prize is awarded biannually on 8 March, the date of Aronson's death. In 1969, the foundation that awarded the prize was dissolved on the initiative of its last chairman Georg Henneberg, and the responsibility for the prize and the remaining capital was transferred to the (West) Berlin government, in order to safeguard the existence of the prize. Since 1970, the prize has been awarded by the

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. The first laureate was August von Wassermann. Among the Aronson laureates are several scientists who later were awarded the

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, such as

Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from ...

and

Gerhard Domagk Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (; 30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KL730) as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Phy ...

Laureates

* 1921 August von Wassermann * 1926

* 1931 Richard Otto * 1944

* 1956

Helmut Ruska Helmut Ruska (June 7, 1908, Heidelberg - August 30, 1973) was a German physician and biologist from Heidelberg. After earning his medical degree, he spent several years working as a physician at hospitals in Heidelberg and Berlin. During this time, ...

* 1960 Paul Hans Karl Constantin Schmidt * 1966 Peter GiesbrechtBerliner Mikrobiologische Gesellschaft
''100 Jahre Berliner Mikrobiologische Gesellschaft''
p. 91 * 1967 Albert Herrlich * 1968 Friedrich Staib * 1971 or 1972 Werner Köhler * 1971 or 1972 Werner Schäfer * 1973 Ernst Richard Habermann * 1977 Werner Knapp * 1981 Walter Doerfler * 1982 Volker Schirrmacher * 1985 Volker ter Meulen * 1987 Karin Mölling * 1988 Stefan H. E. Kaufmann * 1989 Hans-Dieter Klenk * 1990 Dieter Bitter-Suermann * 1991 Bernhard Fleckenstein * 1992 Stefan Carl Wilhelm Meuer * 1993 Ulrich KoszinowskiBerliner Zeitung
''Aronson-Preis wird verliehen''
28 February 1994 * 1994 Thomas Hünig * 1995 Otto Haller * 1996 Thomas F. Meyer * 1997 Bernhard Fleischer * 1998 Jürgen Heesemann * 1999 Ernst Theodor RietschelVerleihung des Aronsonpreises im UKBF an zwei herausragende Wissenschaftler.
18 February 2000, ''Informationsdienst Wissenschaft'' (idw-online.de). * 2000 Andreas Radbruch * 2001

Sucharit Bhakdi Sucharit Bhakdi is a retired Thai-German microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate ...

* 2002 Wolfgang Hammerschmidt * 2007 Matthias ReddehaseCharité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
''Aronson-Wissenschaftspreis wird an der Charité verliehen''
, 28 November 2008 * 2008 Matthias Frosch

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Laureates

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