The Ignaz Lieben Prize, named after the Austrian banker , is an annual
Austria
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n award made by the
Austrian Academy of Sciences to young scientists working in the fields of
molecular biology
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,
chemistry
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, or
physics
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.
Biography
The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian
Nobel Prize
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. It is similar in intent but somewhat older than the Nobel Prize. The Austrian merchant Ignaz L. Lieben, whose family supported many philanthropic activities, had stipulated in his testament that 6,000 florins should be used “for the common good”. In 1863 this money was given to the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize was instituted. Every three years, the sum of 900 florins was to be given to an Austrian scientist in the field of chemistry, physics, or physiology. This sum corresponded to roughly 40 per cent of the annual income of a university professor.
From 1900 on, the prize was offered on a yearly basis. The endowment was twice increased by the Lieben family. When the endowment had lost its value due to inflation after
World War I
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, the family transferred the necessary sum yearly to the
Austrian Academy of Sciences. But since the family was persecuted by the
National Socialists
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, the prize was discontinued after the German
Anschluss
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The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
of Austria in 1938.
Richard Lieben (1842–1919), the younger son of Ignaz Lieben, financed the Richard Lieben Prize in Mathematics, which was awarded every three years from 1912 to 1921, and one final time in 1928, before being discontinued.
In 2004 the Lieben prize was reinstated, with support from Isabel Bader and Alfred Bader (who was able to flee from Austria to
Great Britain
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at the age of fourteen in 1938). Now, the award amounts to US Dollar 36,000, and it is offered yearly to young scientists who work in Austria,
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Czech Republic
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,
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,
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or
Slovenia
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(i.e., in one of the countries that were part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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a hundred years ago), and who work in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry, or physics.
Laureates
Source (1865–1937; 2004–2007)
Ignaz Lieben Gesellschaft
*2021
*2020 Norbert Werner
*2019
Gašper Tkačik
Gašper Tkačik (born 1979) is a Slovenian theoretical physicist and computational neuroscientist.
Life and work
After completing his International Baccalaureate from Bežigrad high school in Ljubljana, he enrolled in the department of mathemat ...
*2018
Nuno Maulide
*2017
Iva Tolić
*2016
Illés Farkas Illés may refer to:
People
* Béla Illés (born 1968), Hungarian footballer
* Béla Illés (writer) (1895-1974), Hungarian writer and journalist
* Jenö Illés (1877–1951), Hungarian-German cinematographer and film director
* György Illés ...
*2015
Francesca Ferlaino
Francesca Ferlaino (born 1977) is an Italian-Austrian experimental physicist known for her research on quantum matter. She is a professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck.
Biography
Francesca Ferlaino was born in Naples, Italy. She studi ...
*2014
*2013
Barbara Kraus
Barbara Kraus is an Austrian physicist specializing in quantum information, quantum entanglement, and quantum key distribution. She is a University Professor and the head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck.
Educ ...
*2012
*2011 Mihály Kovács
*2010
Robert Kralovics
Robert Kralovics is a Slovak born geneticist, working in the area of blood neoplasms.
Robert Kralovics was born in 1970 in Nové Zámky, Slovakia, which was at that time part of Czechoslovakia. Robert Kralovics earned his master's degree in Molecu ...
*2009
Frank Verstraete
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*2008
Csaba Pal
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*2007
Markus Aspelmeyer
Markus Aspelmeyer is an Austrian quantum physicist.
Aspelmeyer was born 1974 in the Bavarian town Schongau. He also attended the local school, where he received his abitur in 1993.
He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Munich, ...
*2006
Andrius Baltuska
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* Andrius Algirdaitis (c.1325–1399), Duke of Pskov and Polotsk
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*2005
Ronald Micura
Ronald Micura is an Austrian chemist. He received his PhD working in the field of phycobilin pigments under the supervision of Karl Grubmayr in 1995. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2005.
Micura studied chemistry at the University of Linz, wh ...
*2004
Zoltan Nusser
Zoltan Nusser is a physiologist. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2004.
He graduated from the University of Budapest, in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in Physiology from Oxford University in 1995. He works at the Institute of Experimental Medici ...
* ''Not awarded 1938–2003''
*1937
Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was an Austrian physicist credited with developing photographic nuclear emulsions that were usefully able to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly ad ...
and
Hertha Wambacher
Hertha Wambacher (9 March 1903 in Vienna – 25 April 1950 in Vienna) was an Austrian physicist. Education
After having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls' high school run by the Association for the Extended Education o ...
*1936
Franz Lippay and
Richard Rössler
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*1935
Armin Dadieu
*1934
Eduard Haschek
*1933
Ferdinand Scheminzky
*1932
Georg Koller
*1931
Karl Höfler
*1930
Wolf Johannes Müller
*1929
Karl Przibram Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
*1927
Otto Porsch and
Gustav Klein
*1926
Adolf Franke
*1925
Lise Meitner
Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...
*1924
Otto Loewi
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and
Ernst Peter Pick
*1923
Otto von Fürth
*1922
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
*1921
Karl von Frisch
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His work centered on investigations of ...
*1920
Ernst Späth
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Life
Späth was the first to synthesise mescaline and was one of the first to synthesize cuscohygrine ...
*1919
Victor Franz Hess
Victor Franz Hess (; 24 June 188317 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays.
Biography
He was born to Vinzenz Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein ...
*1918
Eugen Steinach
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*1917
Wilhelm Schlenk
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* William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm"
* Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
Other uses
* Moun ...
*1916
Friedrich Adolf Paneth Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
*1915
Wilhelm Trendelenburg
Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg (16 July 1877 – 16 March 1946) was a German physiologist known for his work in physiological optics.
He studied physiology at the University of Freiburg, receiving his doctorate from the University of Leipzig ...
*1914
Fritz Pregl
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*1913
Stefan Meyer
*1912
Oswald Richter
*1911
Friedrich Emich
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*1910
Felix Ehrenhaft
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*1909
Eugen Steinach
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*1908
Paul Friedlaender
*1907
Hans Benndorf
Hans Benndorf (13 December 1870 – 11 February 1953) was an Austrian physicist born in Zurich, and died in Graz. He made several contributions in the field of seismology and in his research of atmospheric electricity.
He was the son of archaeolo ...
*1906
Arnold Durig
Arnold Durig (12 November 1872 – 18 October 1961) was an Austrian physiologist remembered for his investigations involving physiological and pathophysiological aspects of individuals exposed to high altitude conditions.
He very probably ...
*1905
Rudolf Wegscheider
Rudolf Wegscheider (18 October 1859 – 8 January 1935) was an Austrian chemist of Banat Swabian origin.
Wegscheider studied chemistry and was the founder of the Austrian School of Chemistry. He taught at the University of Vienna, and from 1 ...
and
Hans Leopold Meyer
*1904
Franz Schwab
*1903
Josef Schaffer
*1902
Josef Herzig
Josef Herzig (25 September 1853 – 4 July 1924) was an Austrian chemist.
Herzig was born in Sanok, Galicia, which at that time was part of Austria-Hungary. Herzig went to school in Breslau until 1874, started studying chemistry at the Unive ...
*1901
Josef Liznar
*1900
Theodor Beer and
Oskar Zoth
*1898
Konrad Natterer
*1895
Josef Maria Eder
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Life and work
Eder was ...
and
Eduard Valenta
*1892
Guido Goldschmiedt Guido Goldschmiedt (May 29, 1850 – August 6, 1915) was an Austrian chemist. During his career, he collaborated with Bunsen in Heidelberg and Baeyer in Straßburg. In 1891, he became full professor at the University of Vienna and later at the Un ...
*1889
Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten
*1886
Zdenko Hans Skraup
Zdenko Hans Skraup (March 3, 1850 – September 10, 1910) was a Czech-Austrian chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.
Life
Skraup was born in Prague, where he attended the Oberrealschule from 1860 till 1866 ...
*1883
Victor Ritter Ebner von Rofenstein
*1880
Hugo Weidel
Hugo Weidel (13 November 1849 – 7 June 1899) was an Austrian chemist known for inventing Weidel's reaction and describing the structure of organic compound niacin. For his achievements, Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880.
Life and work
Hu ...
*1877
Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten
*1874
Eduard Linnemann
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He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Karlsruhe. After he received his Ph.D. he worked with Kekulé at the University of Ghent a ...
*1871
Leander Ditscheiner
*1868
Eduard Linnemann
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He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Karlsruhe. After he received his Ph.D. he worked with Kekulé at the University of Ghent a ...
and
Karl von Than
*1865
Josef Stefan
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Life and work
Stefan was born in an outskirt village of St. Peter (Slovene: ; to ...
Richard Lieben Prize
* 1912
Josip Plemelj
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* 1915
Gustav Herglotz
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Biography
Gustav Ferdinand Joseph Wenzel Herglotz was born in Volary num. 28 to a public not ...
* 1918
Wilhelm Gross
* 1921
Hans Hahn and
Johann Radon
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Life
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* 1928
Karl Menger
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See also
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The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...
References
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