The Lichtenberg Medal (German: Lichtenberg-Medaille) is the highest award of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the second oldest of the se ...
. It was established in memory of the Göttingen scholar
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for ...
. It has been awarded since 2004 (every two years since 2015) to "outstanding scientists who are respected by the public". The winner receives a gold medal and a certificate.
The Academy selects the laureate on the recommendation of either the Mathematical-Physical or the Philological-Historical Class. The right of nomination changes between the two classes.
Laureates
* 2004
Paul Kirchhof
Paul Kirchhof (born February 21, 1943 in Osnabrück) is a German jurist and tax law expert. He is also a professor of law, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and, a former judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (' ...
, former Federal Constitutional Court judge.
* 2005
Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Middlebrook, Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is b ...
, chemist and writer.
* 2006
Peter Bieri , professor of philosophy, novelist.
* 2007
Arnold Esch
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, historian and writer.
* 2008
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish Americans, Polish-American theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes P ...
, chemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
* 2009
Christian Meier
Christian Dietrich Meier Zender (born June 23, 1970), best known as Christian Meier, is a Peruvian actor and singer in Latin America, the US Hispanic market, and around the Spanish speaking world.
Biography
Meier was born in Lima, Peru, the yo ...
, ancient historian.
* 2010
Bert Hölldobler
Berthold Karl Hölldobler (born 25 June 1936) is a German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including ''The Ants'', for which he and his co-author, ...
, behavioural scientist and sociobiologist.
* 2011 , Spanish jurist and writer.
* 2012
Helmut Schwarz
Helmut Schwarz (born 6 August 1943) is a German organic chemist. He has been a professor of chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin since 1978. In 2018, he was elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Caree ...
, German chemist.
* 2013
Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944 in New York) is an American conductor, pianist, and musicologist; he is currently a professor of music at Boston University. As a performer he has recorded music by composers from Antoine Busnois to Silvestre ...
, American musicologist.
* 2014
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951 in East Lansing, Michigan) is an American historian of science. Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thoug ...
, American science historian.
* 2015 , German jurist.
* 2017
James G. Anderson , American climatologist.
* 2019
Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf (born 1972) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.
Biography
Wulf was born in New Delhi, India, a child of German developmental aid workers, and spent the first five yea ...
, German-British cultural and economic historian.
* 2022
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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References
External links
Lichtenberg Medal
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German science and technology awards
Awards established in 2004
Medals