The Erwin Schrödinger Prize (

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: Erwin Schrödinger-Preis) is an annual award presented by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for lifetime achievement by Austrians in the fields of mathematics and

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

. The prize was established in 1958, and was first awarded to its namesake,

Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theo ...

Prize criteria and endowment

The prize is awarded at the discretion of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to scholars resident in Austria for excellence and achievements in the mathematical and scientific disciplines in the broadest sense. The prize is not awarded to full members of the Academy. The award ceremony is held annually in October. The prize includes an annual stipend currently of € 15 000, paid monthly.

Prize winners

Source: *1956

*1958

Felix Machatschki Karl Ludwig Felix Machatschki (22 September 1895 – 17 February 1970) was an Austrian mineralogist. He was born in Arnfels (near Leibnitz) in Styria, Austria. He studied at the University of Graz, obtaining his habilitation in 1925; in 1 ...

*1960 Erich Schmid *1962

Marietta Blau Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was an Austrian physicist credited with developing photographic nuclear emulsions that were usefully able to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly a ...

*1963 Ludwig Flamm and

Karl Przibram Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

*1964

Otto Kratky Otto Kratky (; born 9 March 1902 in Vienna – died 11 February 1995 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method, for the Kratky plot, and for the invention of the density ...

*1965 Fritz Wessely *1966 Georg Stetter *1967 Berta Karlik and Gustav Ortner *1968 Hans Nowotny *1969

Walter Thirring Walter Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.Thirring, H. Über die Wirkung rotierender ferner Massen ...

*1970

Erika Cremer Erika Cremer (20 May 1900, Munich – 21 September 1996, Innsbruck) was a German physical chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Innsbruck who is regarded as one of the most important pioneers in gas chromatography, as she second c ...

*1971 Richard Biebl *1972 Fritz Regler and Paul Urban *1973

Hans Tuppy Hans Tuppy (born July 22, 1924) is an Austrian biochemist who participated in the sequencing of insulin, and became Austria's first university professor for biochemistry. He was Austrian Minister for Science and Research from 1987 to 1989. Fami ...

*1974 Otto Hittmair and Peter Weinzierl *1975

Richard Kiefer Richard E. Kiefer (February 26, 1921 – June 15, 1961)Reference 7 was an American murderer and the last person to be executed in Indiana before the national moratorium on executions in 1972 with the case of '' Furman v. Georgia.'' Crime and surr ...

and Erwin Plöckinger *1976 Herbert W. König and Ferdinand Steinhauser *1977

Viktor Gutmann Baron Viktor Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće (3 October 1891 – 17 February 1946) was a Croatian industrialist. Early life Baron von Gutmann was born in Belišće on 3 October 1891 to a Croatian noble Jewish family named Gutmann. His fath ...

and Helmut Rauch *1978

Edmund Hlawka Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting profes ...

and

Günther Porod Günther Porod (; 1919 in Faak am See near Villach – 1984 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his work on the small-angle X-ray scattering method, done in collaboration with his teacher Otto Kratky, and in particular f ...

*1979 Heinz Parkus *1980 Peter Klaudy and

Hans List Hans List (30 April 1896 in Graz, capital of Austria's federal province Styria – 10 September 1996 in Graz) was a technical scientist and inventor and entrepreneur. After earning a doctorate in engineering at the Technical University in Graz, H ...

*1981 Kurt Komarek *1982 Othmar Preining *1983 Josef Schurz and

Peter Schuster Peter K. Schuster (born 7 March 1941) is a theoretical chemist known for his work with the German Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen in developing the quasispecies model. His work has made great strides in the understanding of viruses and their replica ...

*1984 Leopold Schmetterer and Josef Zemann *1985 Adolf Neckel and Karl Schlögl *1986 Walter Majerotto and Horst Wahl *1987 Edwin Franz Hengge and Franz Seitelberger *1988 Wolfgang Kummer and

Fritz Paschke Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridoli ...

*1989 Johannes Pötzl *1990 Manfred W. Breiter and

Karl Kordesch Karl Kordesch (18 March 1922 – 12 January 2011) was an Austrian chemist and inventor, most notable for jointly inventing the alkaline battery. In 1953 he moved to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. Life Kordesch was born in Vie ...

*1991 Siegfried J. Bauer and Willibald Riedler *1992 Josef F. K. Huber and Karlheinz Seeger *1993 Benno F. Lux and Oskar F. Olaj *1994 Tilmann Märk and Heide Narnhofer *1995 Heinz Gamsjäger and Jürgen Hafner *1996 Alfred Kluwick *1997 Werner Lindinger and Thomas Schönfeld *1998

Peter Zoller 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 ...

*1999 Johann Mulzer *2000 Erich Gornik and Hans Troger *2001 Bernhard Kräutler and

Siegfried Selberherr Siegfried Selberherr (* 3. August 1955 in Klosterneuburg) is an Austrian scientist in the field of microelectronics. He is a professor at the Institute for Microelectronics of the Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien). His primary research interes ...

*2002 Ekkehart Tillmanns *2003 Erwin S. Hochmair and Hildegunde Piza *2004 Anton Stütz and

Jakob Yngvason Jakob Yngvason (born 23 November 1945) is an Icelandic/Austrian physicist and emeritus professor of mathematical physics at the University of Vienna. He has made important contributions to local quantum field theory, thermodynamics, and the quant ...

*2005 Franz Dieter Fischer and Rainer Kotz *2006

Rainer Blatt Rainer Blatt (born 8 September 1952) is a German-Austrian experimental physicist. His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information. He and his team performed one of the first experiments to teleport atoms, the other wa ...

*2007 Georg Brasseur and Thomas Jenuwein *2008 Georg Wick *2009 Bernd Mayer *2010

Walter Kutschera Walter Kutschera (born 1939) is an Austrian physicist. Biography Kutschera was born in Vienna, Austria in 1939. In 1965 he got his Ph.D. in experimental physics from the Austrian University of Graz. Starting from next year and for the whole 27 a ...

*2011 Gerhard A. Holzapfel *2012 Jürgen Knoblich *2013

Nick Barton Nicholas Hamilton Barton (born 30 August 1955) is a British evolutionary biologist. Education Barton was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge where he graduated with a first-class degree in Biological Sciences (Cambridge) in 1976 and gained his ...

*2014 Denise P. Barlow *2015 und Jiří Friml *2016 Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Jürgen Sandkühler *2017

Francesca Ferlaino Francesca Ferlaino (born 1977) is an Italian-Austrian experimental physicist known for her research on quantum matter. She is a professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck. Biography Francesca Ferlaino was born in Naples, Italy. She studi ...

*2018

Elly Tanaka Elly Margaret Tanaka (born 1965) is a biochemist and senior scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria. Tanaka studies the molecular cell biology of limb and spinal cord regeneration as well as the evolut ...

and Peter Jonas *2019 Karlheinz Gröchenig and Helmut Ritsch *2020 László Erdős and Markus Arndt *2022 Christoph Bock

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Prize criteria and endowment

Prize winners

See also

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