The Ignaz Lieben Prize, named after the Austrian banker , is an annual

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n award made by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to young scientists working in the fields of

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Biography

The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian

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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

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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

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, the prize was discontinued after the German

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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

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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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(i.e., in one of the countries that were part of the

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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 Frank Verstraete (born November 1972) is a Belgian quantum physicist who is working on the interface between quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. He pioneered the use of tensor networks and entanglement theory in quantum man ...

*2008

Csaba Pal Csaba Pal (Hungarian: Pál �paːlCsaba �t͡ʃɒbɒ born March 27, 1975) is a Hungarian biologist at the Biological Research Centre (BRC) in Szeged Hungary. His laboratory is part of the Synthetic biology, Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit ...

*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 Andrius is a Lithuanian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the English language name Andrew. People with the name Andrius include: * Andrius Algirdaitis (c.1325–1399), Duke of Pskov and Polotsk *Andrius Arlauskas (born 1986), Lithuanian f ...

*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 Richard Rössler, also ''Roessler'' or ''Rößler'' (14 November 1880 – 23 June 1962) was a Baltic German pianist, organist, composer and music educator (academic teacher). In 1910, he married the pianist Dora Charlotte Mayer (1887–1951), a W ...

*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 Otto Loewi (; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For his discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Med ...

and Ernst Peter Pick *1923 Otto von Fürth *1922 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch *1921

Karl von Frisch Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investigations of ...

*1920

Ernst Späth Ernst Späth (; 14 May 1886 in Moravský Beroun – 30 September 1946 in Zurich) was an Austrian chemist, specializing in natural products. 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 Eugen Steinach (28 January 1861 – 14 May 1944) was an Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology. Steinach played a significant role in discovering the relationship between sex hormones (estrogen and testosterone) and human physical iden ...

*1917

Wilhelm Schlenk Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * 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 Fritz Pregl ( sl, Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contribut ...

*1913 Stefan Meyer *1912 Oswald Richter *1911

Friedrich Emich Friedrich Emich (5 September 1860 – 22 January 1940) was an Austrians, Austrian chemist. Emich is recognized as the founder of microchemistry and worked at Graz University of Technology. Together with his colleague from the University of Gra ...

*1910

Felix Ehrenhaft Felix Ehrenhaft (24 April 1879 – 4 March 1952) was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial ...

*1909

*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 Josef Maria Eder (16 March 1855 – 18 October 1944) was an Austrian chemist who specialized in the chemistry of photography, and who wrote a comprehensive early history of the technical development of chemical photography. 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 Eduard Linnemann (2 February 1841 – 4 April 1886) was a German chemist. 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

and Karl von Than *1865

Josef Stefan Josef Stefan ( sl, Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire. Life and work Stefan was born in an outskirt village of St. Peter (Slovene: ; to ...

Richard Lieben Prize

* 1912

Josip Plemelj Josip Plemelj (December 11, 1873 – May 22, 1967) was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. He was the first chancellor of t ...

* 1915

Gustav Herglotz Gustav Herglotz (2 February 1881 – 22 March 1953) was a German Bohemian physicist best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. 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 Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna). Life RadonBrigitte Bukovics: ''Biography of Johan ...

* 1928

Karl Menger Karl Menger (January 13, 1902 – October 5, 1985) was an Austrian-American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebras and the dimension theory of low- regularity ("rough") curves a ...

References

{{reflist Austrian science and technology awards Biology awards Chemistry awards Physics awards 1863 establishments in the Austrian Empire Awards established in 1863

Biography

Laureates

Richard Lieben Prize

See also

References