The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

to "exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research". Since 1986, up to ten prizes are awarded annually to individuals or research groups working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad. It is considered the most important research award in Germany. The prize is named after the German

polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...

and philosopher

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathema ...

(1646–1716). It is one of the highest endowed research prizes in Germany with a maximum of €2.5 million per award. Past prize winners include

Stefan Hell Stefan Walter Hell HonFRMS (: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the d ...

(2008),

Gerd Faltings Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathema ...

(1996),

Peter Gruss Peter Gruss (born 28 June 1949) is a German developmental biologist, president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and the former president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (having been elected for the term from 2002 to 2008 and ree ...

(1994),

Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo (; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding dire ...

(1992),

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...

(1989),

Erwin Neher Erwin Neher (; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ...

(1987),

Bert Sakmann Bert Sakmann (; born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch cla ...

(1987),

Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wor ...

(1986),

Hartmut Michel Hartmut Michel (; born 18 July 1948) is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors tha ...

(1986), and

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. Nü ...

(1986).

Prizewinners

2020–2029

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

2021: * Asifa Akhtar, Epigenetics, Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie und Epigenetik, Freiburg * Elisabeth André, Computer Science, Universität Augsburg *

Giuseppe Caire Giuseppe Caire (born 1965 in Turin) is an Italian telecommunications engineer. Career Caire received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1990, his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1 ...

, Theoretical Communications Engineering, Technical University of Berlin *

Nico Eisenhauer Nico Eisenhauer (born 22 February 1980, in Lindenfels, Germany) is a German biologist, soil ecologist and professor for experimental interaction ecology at Leipzig University. Scientific career Nico Eisenhauer obtained his diploma in animal ...

, Biodiversity Research, Universität Leipzig * Veronika Eyring, Earth System Modelling, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Standort Oberpfaffenhofen und Universität Bremen *

Katerina Harvati Katerina Harvati ( el, Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970 in Athens) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in early human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology method ...

, Palaeoanthropology, Universität Tübingen und Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Tübingen * Steffen Mau, Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin * Rolf Müller, Pharmaceutical Biology, Helmholtz-Institut für Pharmazeutische Forschung Saarland (HIPS) und Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken * Jürgen Ruland, Immunology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München * Volker Springel, Astrophysics, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching 2020: *

Thorsten Bach Thorsten (Thorstein, Torstein, Torsten) is a Scandinavian given name. The Old Norse name was ''Þórsteinn''. It is a compound of the theonym ''Þór'' (''Thor'') and ''steinn'' "stone", which became ''Thor'' and ''sten'' in Old Danish and Old Swed ...

, Chemistry, Technical University of Munich * Baptiste Jean Germain Gault, Materials Science, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research * Johannes Grave, Art History, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena *

Thomas Kaufmann Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, Evangelical Theology, Georg August University of Göttingen * Andrea Musacchio, Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology *

Thomas Neumann Thomas Neumann (born 1977) is a German computer scientist and full professor for ''Data Science and Engineering'' at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Education and career Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics at ...

, Computer Science, Technical University of Munich * Marco Prinz, Neuropathology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg * Markus Reichstein, Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry *

Dagmar Schäfer Dagmar Schäfer is a German sinologist and historian of science. She is director of Department III, Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She is honorary professor for the history of technol ...

, History of Science, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science * Juliane Vogel, Literature, University of Konstanz

2019–2010

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

2019: * Sami Haddadin, Robotics, Technical University of Munich *

Rupert Huber Rupert W.M. Huber (born 1967 in Mödling, Austria) is an Austrian composer and musician. In 1994, Huber founded ''Huber Musik'' to publish his own music, and in the same year, founded Tosca with Richard Dorfmeister. Huber's 2006 release of ''Fu ...

, Experimental physics, University of Regensburg *

Andreas Reckwitz Andreas Reckwitz (18 March 1970 in Witten) is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. Life Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bon ...

, Sociology, Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder) * Hans-Reimer Rodewald, Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg *

Melina Schuh Melina Schuh is a German molecular biologist. She is known for her work on meiosis in human egg cells, and for her studies on the mechanisms that lead to Down syndrome. Early life and education Schuh was born in 1980 in Germany and grew up in B ...

, cell biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institute), Göttingen * Brenda Schulman, Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB), Martinsried * Ayelet Shachar, Law and Political science, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen * Michèle Tertilt, Economics, University of Mannheim * Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, experimental Solid-state physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) * Matthias Wessling, Chemical reaction engineering, RWTH Aachen University and Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien (DWI), Aachen 2018: * Jens Beckert, Sociology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne *

Alessandra Buonanno Alessandra Buonanno is an Italian naturalized-American theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam. She is the head of the "Astrophysical and Cosmological Rela ...

, Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam * Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main *

Veit Hornung Veit is a personal name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Gustav Veit (1824–1903), German gynecologist and obstetrician, a native of Leobschütz * Johann Veit (1852–1917), German gynecologist *Mario Veit (born 1973), German box ...

, Immunologie, Genzentrum, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Eicke Latz, Immunologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn * Heike Paul, Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg * Erika L. Pearce, Immunologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie und Epigenetik, Freiburg/Breisgau * , Experimentelle Festkörperphysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen * Oliver G. Schmidt, Materialwissenschaften, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden und Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Technische Universität Chemnitz *

Bernhard Schölkopf Bernhard Schölkopf is a German computer scientist (born 20 February 1968) known for his work in machine learning, especially on kernel methods and causality. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Ge ...

, Maschinelles Lernen, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Tübingen * László Székelyhidi, Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Leipzig 2017: * Lutz Ackermann, Organic Molecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen *

Beatrice Gründler Beatrice Gründler (or Gruendler; born 24 August 1964, in Offenburg) is a German Arabist and Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Free University of Berlin and President of the American Oriental Society. She was awarded the Gottfried Wilh ...

, Arabistics,

Free University Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

Ralph Hertwig Ralph Hertwig (born 4 November 1963, in Heilbronn, Germany) is a German psychologist whose work focuses on the psychology of human judgment and decision making. Hertwig is Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institu ...

, Cognition Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Education research * Karl-Peter Hopfner, Structure Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich * Frank Jülicher, Theoretical Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of complex systems * Lutz Mädler, Mechanical Process engineering, University of Bremen *

Britta Nestler Britta Nestler (born 1972) is a German materials scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research involves the development of software to simulate the formation of microstructures in advanced materials for which experimental studi ...

, Material science, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology *

Joachim P. Spatz Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Tetragrammaton, Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Bibl ...

, Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems and

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

Anne Storch Anne Storch (born 16 September 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the University of Cologne. Career Storch studied African linguistics, ethnology, and history at Frankfurt am Main. From 1 ...

, Africanistics, University of Köln * Jörg Vogel, Medical Microbiology, University of Würzburg 2016: *

Frank Bradke Frank Bradke (born 16 October 1969 in Berlin) is a German neurobiologist who works on the physiological regeneration of nerve cells in the central nervous system The central nervous system (CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting p ...

, Neuroregeneration, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE),

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

Emmanuelle Charpentier Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, sh ...

, Infection Biology,

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) is a non-university research institute of the Max Planck Society located in the heart of Berlin in Berlin-Mitte. It was founded in 1993. Arturo Zychlinsky is currently the Managing Director. ...

, Berlin *

Daniel Cremers Daniel Cremers (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, Professor of Informatics and Mathematics and Chair of Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence at the Technische Universität München. His research foci are computer vision, mathematica ...

, Computer Vision, Chair of Informatics IX: Image Understanding and Knowledge-Based Systems, Technical University of Munich * Daniel James Frost, Mineralogy/Experimental Petrology, University of Bayreuth *

Dag Nikolaus Hasse Dag, or variant forms, may refer to: Arts and entertainment * DAG (American TV series), ''DAG'' (American TV series), 2000–2001 * Dag (Norwegian TV series), ''Dag'' (Norwegian TV series), 2010–2015 * DAG (newspaper), ''DAG'' (newspaper), a fo ...

, Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of Würzburg *

Benjamin List Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

, Organic Molecular Chemistry, Department of Homogeneous Catalysis, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr *

Christoph Möllers Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhof ...

, Law, Chair of Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin *

Marina Rodnina Marina V. Rodnina (born 19 November 1960) is a biochemist. Life Born in Kiev, Rodnina studied biology at the University of Kiev and obtained her PhD in molecular biology and genetics in 1989. From 1990 to 1992, she was a research fellow of the A ...

, Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), Göttingen *

Bénédicte Savoy Bénédicte Savoy (french: Bénédicte Savoy , born 22 May 1972 in Paris) is a French art historian, specialising in the critical enquiry of the provenance of works of art, including looted art and other forms of illegally acquired cultural obj ...

, History of Modern Art, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin *

Peter Scholze Peter Scholze (; born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2012 and director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018. He ha ...

, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn 2015: * Henry N Chapman, Biological Physics/X-Ray Physics,

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English ''German Electron Synchrotron''), commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matt ...

(DESY), Hamburg, and

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

* Hendrik Dietz, Biochemistry/Biophysics,

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

Stefan Grimme Stefan Grimme (born 1963), is a German physical chemist; he completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991; he is a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011 who is active in the field of computatio ...

, Theoretical Chemistry,

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

* Christian Hertweck, Biological Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, and

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

* Friedrich Lenger, Modern and Contemporary History,

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

Hartmut Leppin Hartmut is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Hartmut of Saint Gall (died 905), Benedictine abbot *Hartmut Bagger (born 1938), retired German general of the Bundeswehr * Hartmut Becker (born 1938), German actor *Hartmut Boockmann ...

, Ancient History,

Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

* Steffen Martus, Modern German Literature,

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

* , Auditory Sensing/Otolaryngology,

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

2014: * Artemis Alexiadou, Linguistics,

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

Armin von Bogdandy Armin von Bogdandy (born 5 June 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German legal scholar. He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law, European Union law, European Law ...

, Foreign public law and international law,

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Max Planck Institute for International Law, MPIL) is a legal research institute located in Heidelberg, Germany. It is operated by the Max Planck Society. The institute was ...

, Heidelberg * Andreas Dreizler, Combustion research,

Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...

Christof Schulz Christof is a masculine given name. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the name include: *Christof Babatz (born 1974), German former professional footballer *Christof Duffner (born 1971), German former ski jumper *Christof E ...

, Combustion and gas dynamics,

Universität Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

Nicole Dubilier Nicole Dubilier is a marine microbiologist and director of the Symbiosis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology since 2013 and a Professor of Microbial Symbioses at the University of Bremen. She is a pioneer in ecological ...

, Marine ecology,

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology __NOTOC__ 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 ...

, Bremen, and

Universität Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strateg ...

Leif Kobbelt Leif Kobbelt (born 12 December 1966 in Cologne) is a German university professor for Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphi ...

, Informatics and computer graphics,

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

Laurens Molenkamp Laurens W. Molenkamp (born 4 August 1956) is a professor of physics and Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg. He is known for his work on semiconductor structures and topological insulators.Universität Würzburg * Brigitte Röder, Biological psychology/neuro-psychology,

Universität Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

Irmgard Sinning Irmgard is a feminine German given name. Notable people with the name include: * Irmgard of Berg (fl. 12th century), German noble, daughter of Adolf VI, Count of Berg * Irmgard of Chiemsee (c. 831/833 – 16 July 866) * Irmgard of Cleves (c. 130 ...

, Structural biology, Universität Heidelberg * Rainer Waser, Nanoelectronics/Materials science,

and Peter Grünberg Institute, Research Center Jülich *

Lars Zender Lars is a common male name in Scandinavia, Scandinavian countries. Origin ''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius (disambiguation), Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with Lauru ...

, Hepatology/oncology, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen 2013: * Thomas Bauer, Islamic studies, Universität Münster * Ivan Đikić, Biochemistry/cell biology,

Universität Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

Frank Glorius Frank Glorius (born 1972 in Walsrode) is a German chemist and W3-Professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Münster. Life and work Glorius studied chemistry at the Leibniz University Hanno ...

, Molecular chemistry, Universität Münster * Onur Güntürkün, Biological psychology, Universität Bochum *

Peter Hegemann Peter Hegemann (born 11 December 1954) is a Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and a Professor of Experimental Biophysics at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is known ...

, Biophysics,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

* Marion Merklein, Metal forming technology/manufacturing engineering, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg * Roderich Moessner,

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex systems is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, located in Dresden, Germany. Research The research at the institute in the field of the physics of complex systems rang ...

, Dresden, together with Achim Rosch, Theoretical solid-state physics, Universität zu Köln * Erika von Mutius, Paediatrics, Allergology, Epidemiology, Klinikum der Universität München * Vasilis Ntziachristos, Bio-imaging with optical techniques, Technische Universität München * Lutz Raphael, Modern and recent history, Universität Trier 2012: * Michael Brecht – Neurophysiology/cellular neuroscience ( Bernstein Zentrum für Computational Neuroscience Berlin und

) *

Rainer Forst Rainer Forst (born 15 August 1964, Wiesbaden) is a German philosopher and political theorist, and was called the "most important political philosopher of his generation" in 2012, when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Currently he is P ...

– political philosophy/theory (

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

) *

Gunther Hartmann Gunther Hartmann (born 7 December 1966 in Leutkirch) is a German immunologist and clinical pharmacologist. Since 2007 he has been the Director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of the Unive ...

– Clinical pharmacology/natural immunity ( Universitätsklinikum Bonn)
Christian Kurts –

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 there ...

Nephrology Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (ren ...

( Universitätsklinikum Bonn) *

Matthias Mann Matthias Mann (born 10 October 1959) is a scientist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Early life and education Born in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Y ...

– Biochemistry (

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) 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 ...

, Martinsried) *

Friederike Pannewick Friederike is a feminine given name which may refer to: People *Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758), Prussian princess and older sister of Frederick the Great *Princess Friederike Luise of Pr ...

– Islamic studies/literature, theater, history of ideas (

Philipps-Universität Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

) * Nikolaus Rajewsky – System biology (

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

, Berlin) *

Ulf Riebesell Ulf, or Ulv is a masculine name common in Scandinavia and Germany. It derives from the Old Norse word for "wolf" (''úlfr'', see Wulf). The oldest written record of the name's occurrence in Sweden is from a runestone of the 11th century. The fe ...

– Oceanography (

Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), former ''Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences'' (German language, German: ''Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften'', IFM-GEOMAR), is a research institute in Kiel, Germany. It w ...

(IFM-Geomar) an der

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

) * Peter Sanders – Theoretical computer science and algorithms (

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT wa ...

, KIT) *

Barbara Wohlmuth Barbara I. Wohlmuth is a German mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. She holds the chair of numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Education and career Wohlmuth ea ...

– Numerical analysis (

Technische Universität München The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

) * Jörg Wrachtrup – Experimental physics (

Universität Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

) 2011: * Michael Brecht, Neuroscience (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) * Ulla Bonas, Microbiology / Molecular phytopathology (Universität Halle-Wittenberg) * , Cognitive neuroscience (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf) *

Anja Feldmann Anja Feldmann (born 8 March 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German computer scientist. Education and career Feldmann studied computer science at Universität Paderborn and received her degree in 1990. She continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon Unive ...

, Computer science / Computer networks / Internet (

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

T-Labs T-Labs, formerly known as "Telekom Innovation Laboratories", is the R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom. T-Labs current research areas are: Future Networks, Spatial Computing and Decentralized Systems. History T-Labs were founded in 2004 as the cent ...

) *

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is a German biogeochemist and organic geochemist known for his research of microbial life below the ocean bed – the deep biosphere. He earned his PhD in organic geochemistry from University of Oldenburg in Germany in 1997. He te ...

, Organic geochemistry (Universität Bremen) *

Anthony A. Hyman Anthony Arie Hyman (born 27 May 1962) is a British scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Education Hyman was educated William Ellis School, University College London and the University of ...

, Cell biology / Microtubuli and cleavage (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) *

Bernhard Keimer Bernhard Keimer (born 24. August 1964 in Ratingen) is a German physicist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. His research group uses spectroscopic methods to explore quantum many-body phenomena in correlated-electron ...

, Experimental solid-state physics (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart) *

Franz Pfeiffer Franz Pfeiffer (February 27, 1815 – May 29, 1868), was a Swiss literary scholar who worked in Germany and Austria. Biography Franz Pfeiffer was born in Solothurn as a Bürger (citizen) of Bettlach. After studying at the University of Munich he ...

, X-ray physics (

) *

Joachim Friedrich Quack Joachim Friedrich Quack (born 10 June 1966 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German Egyptologist and Demotic Language specialist. Education He studied Egyptology, Semitic and Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen and abroad at t ...

, Egyptology (Universität Heidelberg) *

Gabriele Sadowski Gabriele Sadowski (born 18 February 1964) is a German chemist. Early life and education Sadowski studied Chemistry at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg from 1982 to 1987. She finished her doctorate in 1991 at the Technical University Le ...

, Thermodynamics (Technische Universität Dortmund) *

Christine Silberhorn Christine Silberhorn (born 19 April 1974) is a German physicist specialising in quantum optics and a full professor at the Paderborn University. In 2011, Silberhorn was awarded the Leibniz Prize and was the youngest recipient of the 2.5 million ...

, Quantum optics (Universität Paderborn) 2010: *

Jan Born Jan Born (born March 30, 1958, in Celle, Germany) is a neuroscientist who researches the role of sleep in memory consolidation, problem solving, and brain plasticity. He is Head of the Institute of Medical Psychology and the Behavioral Neurobiol ...

, Neuroendocrinology / Sleep research (

University of Lübeck The University of Lübeck is a research university in Lübeck, Northern Germany which focuses almost entirely on medicine and sciences with applications in medicine. In 2006, 2009 and 2016, the University of Lübeck was ranked No. 1 in medicine am ...

) *

Peter Fratzl Peter Fratzl (born 13 September 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam. Life After studying in Strasbourg and Paris, and graduating as an engineer from the Écol ...

, Biomaterials (

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung'') is located in Potsdam-Golm Science Park in Golm, Potsdam, Germany. It was founded in 1990 as a successor of the Institu ...

, Potsdam) *

Roman Inderst Roman Inderst (born 13 April 1970) is a German economist who 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 Christoph Klein (born 18 August 1964 in Kirchen (Sieg)) is a German Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist and Director at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Career Christoph Klein completed cl ...

, Pediatrics / Oncology (

Hannover Medical School The Hannover Medical SchoolAlthough the English spelling of the city name is "Hanover", this form of the name, using the German spelling of the city name, is used as the English-language name of the school, for example . (german: Medizinische Ho ...

) *

Ulman Lindenberger Ulman is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Kenneth Ulman (born 1974), American politician *Avrohom Yitzchok Ulman, Hungarian-born haredi rabbi *Bernie Ulman (died 1986), American football and lacrosse ...

, Lifespan psychology (

Max Planck Institute for Human Development The Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung) is an internationally renowned social science research organization. Located in Berlin, it was initiated in 1961 and officially began operations in 1963 ...

, Berlin) *

Frank Neese Frank Neese is a German theoretical chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research. He is the author of more than 440 scientific articles in journals of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics. His work focuses on the theory of magnetic spec ...

, Theoretical chemistry (

) *

Jürgen Osterhammel Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952 in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian specialized in Chinese and world history. He is professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz. Academia Osterhammel started his academic career as a ...

, Recent and modern history (

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

) *

Petra Schwille Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Bi ...

, Biophysics (

Dresden University of Technology TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

) * Stefan Treue, Cognitive Neurosciences (

German Primate Center The German Primate Centre (German: Deutsches Primatenzentrum, DPZ, founded in 1977) is a non-profit independent research and service institute located in Göttingen. It is a member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community and funded by ...

, Göttingen) *

Joachim Weickert Joachim Weickert (born 15 March 1965 in Ludwigshafen) is a German professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University. In 2010, Weickert was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in image processing. Weickert d ...

, Digital image processing (

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in si ...

)

2009–2000

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2009: *

Antje Boetius Antje Boetius (born 5 March 1967) is a German people, German marine biology, marine biologist. She is a professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen.

, Bremen *

Holger Braunschweig Holger Braunschweig is Head and Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany. He is best known for founding the field of transition metal- boron multiple bonding (transition metal borylenes ...

, Inorganic chemistry,

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

Wolfram Burgard Wolfram Burgard (born 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. He is known for his substantial ...

, Computer science,

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

* Heinrich Detering,

* Jürgen Eckert, IFW Dresden, and

Armin Falk Armin Falk (born 18 January 1968) is a German economist. He has held a chair at the University of Bonn since 2003. Biography Education and career Falk studied economics as well as philosophy and history at the University of Cologne. In 1998 he ...

, Economist,

* Frank Kirchhoff,

University of Ulm Ulm University (german: Universität Ulm) is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer sci ...

* Jürgen Rödel, Materials scientist,

Karl Lenhard Rudolph 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 Austrian ...

* Burkhard Wilking,

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

* Martin R. Zirnbauer,

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

2008: * Susanne Albers –

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

Martin Beneke Martin Beneke (born 1966) is a German physicist. 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 ...

– theoretical particle physics,

* Holger Boche – telecommunications engineering and information theory,

* Martin Carrier philosophy,

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) 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 a ...

Elena Conti Elena Conti (born 14 February 1967 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian biochemist and molecular biologist. She serves as Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, where she uses structural bio ...

– structural biology,

Martinsried Martinsried is one of Munich's two science suburbs. It is a section of Planegg municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. Martinsried is best known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Inst ...

Elisa Izaurralde Elisa Izaurralde (20 September 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 30 April 2018 in Tübingen, Germany) was an Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist. She served as Director and Scientific Member of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Pla ...

– cell biology,

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen was located in Tübingen, Germany; it was founded as Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in 1954 as an offshoot of the Tübingen-based Max Planck Institute for Biology. From 1984 to 2 ...

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

* Holger Fleischer – economic law,

Stefan W. Hell Stefan Walter Hell HonFRMS (: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the d ...

– biophysics,

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (german: Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie), also known as the Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute (german: Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut), was a research institute of the Ma ...

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

Klaus Kern Klaus Kern (born 24 March 1960) is a German physical chemist. Kern received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2008. Biography Kern studied at the University of Bonn chemistry and physics, and receiv ...

– physical solid state chemistry,

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung'') was founded in 1969 and is one of the 82 Max Planck Institutes of the Max Planck Society. It is located on a campus in Stuttgart, togeth ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

Wolfgang Lück Wolfgang Lück (born 19 February 1957 in Herford) is a German mathematician who is an internationally recognized expert in algebraic topology. Life and work After receiving his '' Abitur'' from the Ravensberger Gymnasium in Herford in 1975, ...

– algebraic topology,

; * Jochen Mannhart – experimental solid state physics,

University of Augsburg The University of Augsburg (german: Universität Augsburg) is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties. The University of Augsburg is a relatively you ...

2007: * – molecular diabetes research, endocrinology (

) * Patrick Bruno – theoretical solid-state physics ( MPI of Microstructure Physics,

Halle/Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...

) *

Magdalena Götz Magdalena Götz (born 17 January 1962) is a German neuroscientist. She is noted for her study of Neuroglia, glial cells and holds a chair at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich's Department of Physiology. She is involved in the field of adult ne ...

– neurology ( GSF – Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit and

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

) * Peter Gumbsch – material science (

Universität Karlsruhe (TH) The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

and Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik, Freiburg i. Br. and

) * Gerald Haug – paleoclimatology ( GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam and

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...

) *

Bernhard Jussen Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar *Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946 ...

– mediaeval history (

) * Guinevere Kauffmann – astrophysics ( MPI for Astrophysics,

Garching Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments on its campus. It became a city on 14 September 1990. Location The ...

) * Falko Langenhorst – mineralogy and petrology (

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

) * Oliver Primavesi – classical philology (

) *

Detlef Weigel Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld ...

– plant biology ( MPI for Developmental Biology,

) 2006: * Matthias Beller and Peter Wasserscheid –

homogeneous catalysis In chemistry, homogeneous catalysis is catalysis by a soluble catalyst in a solution. Homogeneous catalysis refers to reactions where the catalyst is in the same phase as the reactants, principally in solution. In contrast, heterogeneous catalysis ...

( Leibniz-Institute for Organic Catalysis at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continen ...

) and chemical processing ( Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) *

Patrick Cramer Patrick Cramer (born 3 February 1969 in Stuttgart, West Germany) is a German chemist, structural biologist, and molecular systems biologist. In 2020, he was honoured to be an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. He became pres ...

–

structural biology Structural biology is a field that is many centuries old which, and as defined by the Journal of Structural Biology, deals with structural analysis of living material (formed, composed of, and/or maintained and refined by living cells) at every le ...

(

) * Peter Jonas –

neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture. This area aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. Historically, it has been dominated b ...

(

Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

) *

Ferenc Krausz Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962 in Mór, Hungary) 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 ...

–

quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have b ...

(

and

Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics The Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (abbreviation: MPQ; german: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) is a part of the Max Planck Society which operates 87 research facilities in Germany. The institute is located in Garching, Germany, ...

) *

Klaus Mezger Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus *Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American basebal ...

–

geochemistry Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans. The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the e ...

(

) *

Thomas Mussweiler Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

–

social psychology Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the r ...

(

) * Felix Otto – analysis of

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

s (

) * Dominik Perler –

history of philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

theoretical philosophy The modern division of philosophy into theoretical philosophy and practical philosophyImmanuel Kant, ''Lectures on Ethics'', Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 41 ("On Universal Practical Philosophy"). Original text: Immanuel Kant, ''Kant’s Ges ...

(

) * Gyburg Radke –

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and philosophy (

Philipps University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the worl ...

) * Marino Zerial –

cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living and ...

(

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics __NOTOC__ The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2001. More than twenty research groups work in m ...

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

) 2005: * Peter Becker –

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

(

) *

Immanuel Bloch Immanuel Bloch (born 16 November 1972, Fulda) is a German experimental physicist. His research is focused on the investigation of quantum many-body systems using ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases. Bloch is known for his work on atoms ...

–

(

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

) *

Stefanie Dimmeler Stefanie Dimmeler (born 18 July 1967) is a German biologist specializing in the pathophysiological processes underlying cardiovascular diseases. Her awards and honours include the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundati ...

–

molecular A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion. In quantum physics, organic chemistry, and bioche ...

cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart d ...

(

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

) *

Jürgen Gauß Jürgen Gauß (Juergen Gauss) is a German theoretical chemist. Gauß was born on 13 August 1960 in Konstanz. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 till 1984. After finishing his PhD thesis on abinitio calculations at the Uni ...

–

theoretical chemistry Theoretical chemistry is the branch of chemistry which develops theoretical generalizations that are part of the theoretical arsenal of modern chemistry: for example, the concepts of chemical bonding, chemical reaction, valence, the surface o ...

(

) * Günther Hasinger –

astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...

(

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 Ph ...

) * Christian Jung –

plant breeding Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce cro ...

(

) *

Axel Ockenfels Axel Ockenfels (born 9 February 1969) is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Cologne. He also is Director of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research, Speaker of the "University of Cologne Excellence Center for ...

–

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 expe ...

(

) *

Wolfgang Peukert Wolfgang Peukert (born 9 June 1958 in Karlsruhe) is a German process engineer. He won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2005. Life Wolfgang Peukert studied chemical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate i ...

– mechanical process engineering ( Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg) *

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger FBA (born 17 July 1955 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German historian. She mainly researches the early modern period and has held the chair for early modern history at the University of Münster. Stollberg-Rilinger is o ...

– History of

early modern Europe Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century. Histori ...

(

) * Andreas Tünnermann – microsystems technology (

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), also referred to as the Fraunhofer IOF, is an institute of the Fraunhofer Society, Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research (FHG). The institute is based ...

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

) 2004: * Frank Allgöwer –

control engineering Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls o ...

(

) *

Gabriele Brandstetter Gabriele is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Surname *Al Gabriele, American comic book artist *Angel Gabriele (1956–2016), American comic book artist * Corrado Gabriele (born 1966), Italian polit ...

– theatre

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

(

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

) *

Thomas Carell Thomas Carell (born 1966) 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 ...

–

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

(

) *

Karl Christoph Klauer 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 ...

–

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

and

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

(

) *

Hannah Monyer Hannah Monyer (born 3 October 1957 in Laslea, Romania) is a Romanian-born (Transylvanian Saxon) German neurobiologist and, since 1999,neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Nikolaus Pfanner and Jürgen Soll –

molecular cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living and ...

of plants (

and

) *

Klaus Dieter Pfeffer Klaus is a German language, German, Dutch language, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus *Billy Klau ...

–

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 there ...

(

Heinrich Heine University Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

) * Dierk Raabe – material science ( Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH, Düsseldorf) *

Konrad Samwer Konrad is a Germans, German (with variants ''Kunz'' and ''Kunze'') given name and surname that means "bold counselor" and may refer to: People Given name Surname *Alexander Konrad (1890–1940), Russian explorer *Antoine Konrad (born 1975), bir ...

–

solid state physics Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the l ...

(

Georg August University of Göttingen Georg may refer to: * ''Georg'' (film), 1997 *Georg (musical), Estonian musical * Georg (given name) * Georg (surname) * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also * George (disambiguation) George may refer to: People * George (given name) * G ...

) *

Manfred Strecker ''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction. B ...

–

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 informatio ...

(

) 2003: *

Winfried Denk Winfried Denk (born November 12, 1957 in Munich) is a German physicist. He built the first two-photon microscope while he was a graduate student (and briefly a postdoc) in Watt W. Webb's lab at Cornell University, in 1989. Early life and educa ...

– medical

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

(

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 (Physiology), R ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

) *

Hélène Esnault Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Biography Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularit ...

and

Eckart Viehweg Eckart Viehweg (born 30 December 1948 in Zwickau, died 29 January 2010) 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, ...

–

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

(

University of Duisburg and Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

) *

Gerhard Huisken Gerhard Huisken (born 20 May 1958) is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry and partial differential equations. He is known for foundational contributions to the theory of the mean curvature flow, including Huiske ...

– geometrical analysis (

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein's theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, ...

(Albert Einstein Institute), Golm, Potsdam) * Rupert Klein –

computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate th ...

(

and

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, German: ''Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung'') is a German government-funded research institute addressing crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate imp ...

) *

Albrecht Koschorke Albrecht ("noble", "bright") is a given name or surname of German language, German origin and may refer to: First name *Albrecht Agthe, (1790–1873), German music teacher *Albrecht Altdorfer, (c. 1480–1538) German Renaissance painter *Albrecht ...

– Renaissance and modern German literature (

University of Constance The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

) *

Roland Lill Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Franks, Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known ...

–

(

) * Christof Niehrs – molecular development biology ( Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg) * Ferdi Schüth – inorganic chemistry (Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr) * Hans-Peter Seidel – graphics (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) * Hubert Wolf (Theologe), Hubert Wolf – history of Christianity/Catholic theology (

) 2002: * Carmen Birchmeier-Kohler – molecular biology (

, Berlin-Buch) * Wolfgang Dahmen – mathematics (

) * Wolf-Christian Dullo – paleontology (

) * Bruno Eckhardt – theoretical physics (

) * Michael Famulok –

(

) * Christian Haass – pathological

(

) * Franz-Ulrich Hartl –

(Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry,

) * Thomas Hengartner – cultural anthropology (

) * Reinhold Kliegl – general psychology (

) * Wolfgang Kowalsky – optoelectronics (Technische Universität Braunschweig) * Karl Leo –

(Technische Universität Dresden) * Frank Vollertsen – forming and stretching manufacturing engineering (University of Paderborn) 2001: * Jochen Feldmann – optoelectronical Electronic component, component (

) * Eduard Christian Hurt – molecular biology ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Hans Keppler – mineralogy (University of Tübingen) * Arthur Konnerth –

(

) * Ulrich Konrad – musicology (

) * Martin Krönke –

(

) * Joachim Küpper – Romantic literary theory (

) * Christoph Markschies – history of Christianity ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Wolfgang Marquardt – process engineering, process systems engineering (

) * Helge Ritter – Informatics (academic field), informatics (University of Bielefeld) * Günter M. Ziegler, Günter Ziegler – mathematics (

) 2000: * Klaus Fiedler – cognitive social psychology ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Peter Greil – materials science ( Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg) * Matthias Hentze, Matthias W. Hentze – molecular biology (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg) * Peter M. Herzig –

and economic geology (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology) * Reinhard Jahn – cellular biology (

(Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute),

) * Aditi Lahiri – general linguistics (

) * Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff – public law (University of Bielefeld) * Dieter Lüst – theoretical physics (

) * Stefan Müller (mathematician), Stefan Müller – mathematics (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) * Manfred Pinkal – computational linguistics (

) * Ilme Schlichting – biophysics (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund) * Friedrich Temps and Hans-Joachim Werner – physical chemistry (

) and Theoretische Chemie (

) * Martin Wegener – solid state physics (University of Karlsruhe)

1999–1990

#1999, 1999 | #1998, 1998 | #1997, 1997 | #1996, 1996 | #1995, 1995 | #1994, 1994 | #1993, 1993 | #1992, 1992 | #1991, 1991 | #1990, 1990

1999: * Ekkard Brinksmeier – manufacturing engineering (University of Bremen) * Bernd Bukau – cellular biology (

) * Joachim Cuntz – mathematics (

) * Alois Fürstner – organometalic chemistry (Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr) * Friedrich Wilhelm Graf – Evangelical theology (

) * Ulrich Herbert – modern history, modern and contemporary history (

) * Martin Johannes Lohse – pharmacology (

) * Volker Mosbrugger – paleontology (University of Tübingen) * Hans-Christian Pape –

(Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg) * Joachim Ullrich – experimental physics (

) 1998: * Heinz Breer – zoology (University of Hohenheim) * Nikolaus P. Ernsting and Klaus Rademann – physical chemistry (

) * Hans-Jörg Fecht – metallic materials (

) * Ute Frevert – modern history (University of Bielefeld) * Wolf-Bernd Frommer –

plant physiology (University of Tübingen) * Christian Griesinger –

(

) * Regine Hengge-Aronis – microbiology (

) * Onno Oncken – geology (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam and

) * Hermann Parzinger – prehistoric and early historical Europe (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin) * Ingo Rehberg – experimental physics (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg) * Dietmar Vestweber – cellular biology/

(

) * Annette Zippelius –

(

) 1997: * Thomas Boehm (biologist), Thomas Boehm – molecular development biology (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg) * Wolfgang Ertmer – experimental physics (University of Hannover) * Angela D. Friederici – neuropsychology (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research, Leipzig) * – microbiology (

) * Jean Karen Gregory – material science (

) * Andreas Kablitz – ''Romance philology/Italian studies'' (

) * Matthias Kleiner – sheet metal forming (Technical University of Cottbus) * Paul Knochel – organometallic chemistry (

) * Elisabeth Knust – developmental biology, development genetics (Heinrich Heine University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) * Stephan W. Koch – theoretical physics (

) * Christian F. Lehner –

genetics (University of Bayreuth) * Stefan M. Maul – ancient orientalism ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Ernst Mayr (Informatiker), Ernst Mayr – information theory (

) * Gerhard Wörner – mineralogy/

(

) 1996: * Eduard Arzt – materials science (

and Max Planck Institute for Metals Research,

) * Hans Werner Diehl – theoretical physics (

) *

– mathematics (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn) * Ulf-Ingo Flügge –

of plants, (

) * Wolfgang Klein – linguistics (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) * Dieter Langewiesche – modern history (University of Tübingen) * – molecular biology (

) * Joachim Reitner – paleontology (

) * Michael Reth –

(Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg) * Wolfgang Schnick – solid state chemistry (University of Bayreuth) * Winfried Schulze – history of

(

) * Reinhard Zimmermann – history of law and civil law (legal system), civil law (University of Regensburg) 1995: * Siegfried Bethke – elementary particle physics (

) * Niels Birbaumer – psychophysiology (University of Tübingen) * Hans-Joachim Freund – physical chemistry (Ruhr University, Ruhr University Bochum) * Martin Grötschel – applied mathematics (

) * Axel Haverich – surgery (

) * Gerhard Hirzinger – robotics (German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen) * –

(

) * Gerd Jürgens –

plant#Structure, growth, and development, plant development (University of Tübingen) * Wolfgang Schleich –

(

) * Manfred G. Schmidt – political science ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Thomas Schweizer (†) – cultural anthropology (

) * Elmar Weiler – plant physiology (Ruhr University, Ruhr University Bochum) * Emo Welzl – Informatics (academic field), informatics (

) 1994: * Gisela Anton – experimental physics (

) * Manfred Broy and Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog – computer science (

and University of Oldenburg) * Ulrich R. Christensen – geophysics (

) * Ulf Eysel –

(Ruhr University, Ruhr University Bochum) * Theodor Geisel (physicist), Theodor Geisel – theoretical physics (

) *

– cellular biology (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, MPI for biophysical chemistry,

) * Wolfgang Hackbusch – Numerical Mathematics, numerical mathematics (

) * Adrienne Héritier and Helmut Willke – sociology/politology (University of Bielefeld) * Stefan Jentsch – molecular biology ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Glenn W. Most – classics, classical philology ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Johann Mulzer –

(

) * Peter Schäfer – Jewish studies (

) 1993: * Christian von Bar – international privatright (Universität Osnabrück) * Johannes Buchmann and Claus-Peter Schnorr – information theory (Universität des Saarlandes, Universität Saarbrücken and

) * Dieter Enders –

(

) * Gunter Fischer –

(Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg) * – neuroanatomy (

) * Jürgen Jost – mathematics (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Bochum) * Regine Kahmann – molecular genetics (

) * Wolfgang Krätschmer – nuclear physics (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg) * Klaus Petermann – high frequency technics (

) * Wolfgang Prinz – psychology (Max-Planck-Institut für Psychologische Forschung, MPI für für Psychologische Forschung, München) * Rudolf G. Wagner – sinology ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Jürgen Warnatz – Internal combustion engine, technical combustion (

) 1992: * Georg W. Bornkamm – virology (Helmholtz Zentrum München, GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit München) * Christopher Deninger, Michael Rapoport, Peter Schneider (mathematician), Peter Schneider and Thomas Zink – mathematics (

, Bergische University Wuppertal,

and University of Bielefeld) * Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit – japanology (

) * Jürgen Kocka – history of sociology (

) * Joachim Menz – mine surveying (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology) * Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Burkhard Monien – Informatics (academic field), informatics (University of Paderborn) * Jürgen Mlynek – experimental physics (

) *

– molecular biology (

) * Wolfgang Raible – romanistics (

) * Hans-Georg Rammensee –

(

) * Jan Veizer –

of sediments (Ruhr University, Ruhr University Bochum) 1991: * Gerhard Ertl – physical chemistry (Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG, Berlin) * Dieter Fenske and Michael Veith – inorganic chemistry (University of Karlsruhe and

) * Ernst O. Göbel –

(University of Marburg) * Dieter Häussinger – internal medicine (

) * Karl-Heinz Hoffmann – applied mathematics (

) * Randolf Menzel – zoology/

neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

(

) * Rolf Müller (biochemist), Rolf Müller –

/molecular biology (University of Marburg) * Hermann Riedel – material mechanics ( Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik Freiburg) * Hans-Ulrich Schmincke – mineralogy/vulcanology (Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissenschaften Kiel) * Michael Stolleis – history of law (

) * Martin Warnke – history of art (

) 1990: * Reinhard Genzel –

(Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,

) * Rainer Greger – physiology (

) * Ingrid Grummt – microbiology (

) * Martin Jansen and Arndt Simon – inorganic chemistry (

and

) * Bert Hölldobler – zoology (

) * Konrad Kleinknecht – experimental physics (

) * Norbert Peters (engineer), Norbert Peters – combustion engineering (

) * Helmut Schwarz –

(

) * Dieter Stöffler – planetology (

) * Richard Wagner (Physiker), Richard Wagner – material science (GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht)

1989–1986

#1989, 1989 | #1988, 1988 | #1987, 1987 | #1986, 1986

1989: * Heinrich Betz –

( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Claus Wilhelm Canaris – Civil law (legal system), civil law (

) * Herbert Gleiter – material science (

) *

– laser physics (

and

) * Joachim Milberg – production Engineering, technics (

) * Jürgen Mittelstraß – philosophy (

) * Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff –

(

) * Manfred T. Reetz –

(

) * Michael Sarnthein and Jörn Thiede – marine geology (

and

Kiel) * Reinhard Stock – nuclear physics, experimental nuclear physics (

) * Wolfgang Stremmel – internal medicine (University of Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf) 1988: * – high frequency, high frequency technics (Technische Universität Braunschweig) * Lothar Gall – modern history (

) * Günter Harder – mathematics (

) * Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger – germanistics, older German literature science (University of Tübingen) * Werner Hildenbrand – social economics (

) * Ingo Müller – theoretical physics (

) * Herbert W. Roesky and George Michael Sheldrick – inorganic chemistry (

) * Wolfram Saenger and Volker Erdmann –

(

) * Günther Schütz (biologist), Günther Schütz – molecular biology (German Cancer Research Center,

) * Hans Wolfgang Spiess – physical chemistry (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz) * Karl Otto Stetter – microbiology (University of Regensburg) * Thomas Weiland – high energy physics (DESY, DESY (German electron synchrotron), Hamburg) 1987: * Gerhard Abstreiter – semiconductor physics (

) * Knut Borchardt – history of economics/social economics (

) * Nils Claussen – ceramic materials (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg) * Bernd Giese –

(Darmstadt University of Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt) * Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Hubert Schmidbaur – inorganic chemistry (

) * Günter Hotz, Kurt Mehlhorn and Wolfgang Paul (computer scientist), Wolfgang Paul – Computer Science (

) *

and

– biophysical chemistry (

/ Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute),

* Friedrich A. Seifert – mineralogy (University of Bayreuth) * Rudolf K. Thauer – biochemical microbiology (

) * Hans-Peter Zenner – Otolaryngology/

(

) 1986: * Géza Alföldy – ancient history ( Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) * Dietrich Dörner – psychology (Otto-Friedrich University) *

– philosophy (

) * Otto Ludwig Lange and Ulrich Heber – ecology and

(

) *

– biology (

) *

and Herbert Jäckle – biology (

) * Peter R. Sahm – casting (

) * Fritz Peter Schäfer – laser physics (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, MPI für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen) * Frank Steglich –

(Darmstadt University of Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt) * Albert H. Walenta – experimental physics (University of Siegen) * Julius Wess – theoretical physics (University of Karlsruhe)

References

External links

Official description
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leibniz Prize Science and technology awards Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Awards established in 1985 1985 establishments in West Germany German science and technology awards Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, *