The Eduard Rhein Foundation was founded in 1976 in

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Eduard Rhein Eduard Rudolph Rhein (23 August 1900, Königswinter – 15 April 1993, Cannes) was an inventor, publisher, and writer. He was the founder of the German magazine ''Hörzu'', which he directed as its editor-in-chief until 1964. He also founded th ...

. The goal of the foundation is to promote scientific research, learning, arts, and culture. This is done in particular by granting awards for outstanding achievements in research and/or development in the areas of radio, television and information technology.

Awards and honors

The foundation grants the following awards and honors: * Technology Award (30,000

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) * Cultural Award (10,000

) * Ring of Honor ( moonstone set in gold) for outstanding work which has been accomplished over a long period of time, the number of living bearers of rings is limited to ten

Ring of Honor Recipients

*1980 Vladimir K. Zworykin *1981

Walter Bruch Walter Bruch (2 March 1908 – 5 May 1990) was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television. He was the inventor of Closed-circuit television. He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s. In add ...

*1982

Max Grundig Max Grundig (; 7 May 1908 – 8 December 1989) was the founder of electronics company Grundig AG. Early life Grundig was raised by his parents in Nuremberg where he delayed his final school exams (''Abitur'') and completed training as an electr ...

*1983

Karl Holzamer Johannes Karl Holzamer (October 13, 1906 – April 22, 2007) was a German philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of the German television station ZDF. Life Karl Holzamer was born in Frankfurt am Main and after the abitur in 19 ...

*1984

Herbert von Karajan Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...

*1985

Hugh Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. After working for newspapers in the 1930s, Greene spent most of his later ...

*1986

Masaru Ibuka Masaru Ibuka (井深大 ''Ibuka Masaru''; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.Kirkup, James"Obituary: Masaru Ibuka,"''Independent'' (London). December 22 ...

*1987

Werner Höfer Werner Höfer (21 March 1913, in Kaisersesch, Rhine Province – 26 November 1997, in Cologne) was a German journalist. He started his career as a Nazi propagandist, working for the newspaper '' Das Reich''. From 1933 to 1945 he was a member o ...

*1988

Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Labor ...

*1992

Rudolf Hell Rudolf Hell (19 December 1901 – 11 March 2002) was a German inventor and engineer. Career Hell was born in Eggmühl. From 1919 to 1923, he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Ma ...

*1994 Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg *1998

Heinz Zemanek Heinz Zemanek (actually ''Heinrich Josef Zemanek'') (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. Th ...

*1999 Vladimir A. Kotelnikov *2000

Heinrich von Pierer Heinrich von Pierer (exactly ''Heinrich Karl Friedrich Eduard Pierer von Esch'') (born 26 January 1941 in Erlangen) is a German manager. From 1992 to 2005, he was CEO of Siemens AG. Subsequently, he was chairman of the supervisory board from whic ...

*2001

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 26 July 1941 in Frankfurt) is a German geneticist, biochemist and research manager. His main fields of research are virus/cell interaction, the mechanisms of gene expression in higher cells and prion diseases. He was ...

*2002

Hans-Jürgen Warnecke Hans-Jürgen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hans-Jürgen Abt of Abt Sportsline, a motor racing and auto tuning company based in Kempten im Allgäu, Germany *Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889–1962), German colonel-general (Gen ...

*2004

Hubert S. Markl Hubert Simon Markl (17 August 1938 – 8 January 2015) was a German biologist who also served as president of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002. Early life Markl was born on 17 August 1938 in Regensburg, Germany. He studied biology, che ...

*2007

Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( rus, Валентина Владимировна Терешкова, links=no, p=vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə, a=Valentina Tereshkova.ogg; born 6 March 1937) is an engine ...

*2008

Herbert Mataré Herbert Franz Mataré (22 September 1912 – 2 September 2011) was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional European transistor, which he developed and paten ...

*2012

Michael Sohlman Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

*2015

Wolfgang Heckl Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

*2020

Gerd Hirzinger Gerd Hirzinger received his Dipl.-Ing. degree and the doctorate, doctor’s degree from the Technical University of Munich, in 1969 and 1974 respectively. In 1969 he joined DLR (the German Aerospace Center) where he first worked on fast digital c ...

Award winners

1979 to 2006 award winners are listed in the German article. 2007: *Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Dr.

Gerhard Sessler Gerhard M. Sessler (born 15 February 1931 in Rosenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German inventor and scientist. He is Professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität ...

for the design of electret transducers, the invention of the foil

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(together with

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) and of the silicon condenser microphone (with D. Hohm). * Cultural Award: Prof. Dr.

Paul Dobrinski Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

for the publication of scientific and technical works of young scientists. * Ring of Honor: Dr. Dr.

for her contributions in the area of manned space flight. 2008 * Technology Award: Siegfried Dais and Uwe Kiencke for invention, international standardisation and propagation of the "

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" (CAN), an open, reliable real-time communication system for

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s in automotive, medical and automation applications as well as in consumer goods, which today dominates the world market. * Cultural Award:

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for brilliantly written science and technology related articles published in the newspaper "

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". Over a sustained period of time his outstanding contributions are received by the readers as splendidly written, comprehensive in scope yet to read sources of information. * Ring of Honor: Herbert F. Mataré for his invention of the solid state amplifier in 1948, performed independently and parallel to Bell Lab's

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. Further, in recognition of his important contributions to information technology, solid-state physics and -manufacturing over a period of more than 60 years. 2009 * Technology Award: Dr.

Martin Schadt Martin Schadt (born 1938) is a Swiss physicist and inventor. Biography In 1970, the physicists Martin Schadt and Wolfgang Helfrich invented the twisted nematic field effect (TN-effect) in the Central Research Laboratories of F. Hoffmann-La Roc ...

Electro-optical core technologies for

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s 2010 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm and Prof. Dr.

Thomas Wiegand Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in Wismar) is a German electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC video coding standards. For H.264/AVC, Wiegand was one of the chairmen of th ...

Contributions to video coding and to the development of the H.264/AVC standard 2011 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hilberg Invention of the radio clock 2012 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr.

Bradford Parkinson Bradford Parkinson (February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contribu ...

Development of the

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(GPS) 2013 * Technology Award:

Ching W. Tang Ching Wan Tang (; born July 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong Americans, Hong Kong–American Physical chemistry, physical chemist. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke), and ...

for inventing the first highly efficient organic light emitting diode and further contributions to the development of organic semiconductor devices. 2014 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Dr.

Kees Schouhamer Immink Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink (born 18 December 1946) is a Dutch scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as Compact D ...

for contributions to the theory and practice of channel codes that enable efficient and reliable optical recording, and creative contributions to digital recording technology. 2015 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. rer. nat. h.c. mult.

Karlheinz Brandenburg Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunh ...

, Dr.-Ing.

Bernhard Grill Bernhard Grill (born January 5, 1961) is one of the developers of the MP3 technology. Grill was born in Schwabach and studied Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1988 to 1995 he engaged in the de ...

and Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Jürgen Herre Jürgen or Jurgen is a popular masculine given name in Germany, Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is cognate with George. Notable people named Jürgen include: A *Jürgen Ahrend (born 1930), German organ builder *Jürgen Alzen (born 196 ...

for decisive contributions to the development and practical implementation of the mp3 audio coding technique.Eduard-Rhein-Preis 2015
2016 * Technology Award: Prof.

Blake S. Wilson Blake Shaw Wilson is an American research scientist best known for his role in developing signal processing strategies for the cochlear implant. Degrees His undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, are in electrical engineering. He ...

, Prof. Dipl-.Ing. Dr.tech.

Erwin Hochmair Erwin Hochmair (born 1940) is an Austrian electrical engineer whose research focuses in the fields of biomedical engineering and cochlear implant design. He has been a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck si ...

and Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Dr. med. Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer for the development and commercialization of the world’s first multi-channel microelectronic cochlear implant. 2017 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst D. Dickmanns for pioneering contributions to autonomic driving. 2018 * Technology Award: Dr. Rajiv Laroia for pioneering work on Flash OFDM as a Forerunner of Fourth-Generation Mobile Communications (4G). 2019 * Technology Award: Dr. Franz Laermer and Andrea Urban for the invention of the deep reactive ion etching process (Bosch Process), a key process for manufacturing semiconductor sensors. 2020 * Technology Award: Prof.

Neal Koblitz Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of hypere ...

, Ph.D. and

Victor S. Miller Victor Saul Miller (born 3 March 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American mathematician as a Principal Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in ...

, Ph.D. for the invention of cryptography based on elliptic curves. 2021 * Technology Award: Prof.

Denis Le Bihan Denis Le Bihan (born July 30, 1957) is a Physician, medical doctor, physicist, member of the Institut de France (French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of sciences), member of the French Academy of Technologies and director since 2007 of NeuroS ...

, MD, Ph.D. and

Peter J. Basser Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

, Ph.D. for the development of MRI diffusion tensor imaging, which is used for surgery and radiation planning, for research into neurological diseases associated with white matter changes, and for reconstruction of neural pathways in the brain (tractography).

References

External links

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