The Dannie Heineman Prize of the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (name since 2023 : )Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the oldest continuously existing institution among the eig ...

has been awarded biennially since 1961 for excellent recently published publications in a new research field of current interest. It is awarded to younger researchers in natural sciences or mathematics. The prize is named after

Dannie Heineman Dannie N. Heineman (23 November 1872 – 31 January 1962) was a Belgian-American engineer and businessman. In 1905, he became the managing director of Sofina, which at the time was a small investment trust. He remained the head of Sofina for 5 ...

, a Belgian-US philanthropist, engineer and businessman with German roots.

Prizewinners

* 1961

James Franck James Franck (; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German-American physicist who received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed hi ...

, biochemistry * 1963 Edmund Hlawka, mathematics * 1965

Georg Wittig Georg Wittig (; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize i ...

, chemistry * 1967

Martin Schwarzschild Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist. The Schwarzschild criterion, for the stability of stellar gas against convention, is named after him. Biography Schwarzschild was born in Potsdam ...

, astrophysics * 1967

Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and ...

, biochemistry * 1969

Brian Pippard Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (7 September 1920 – 21 September 2008), was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1982 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which h ...

, physics * 1971 Neil Bartlett, chemistry * 1973 Igor Schafarewitsch, mathematics * 1975

Philip Warren Anderson Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of Anderson localization, localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking ( ...

, physics * 1977

Albert Eschenmoser Albert Jakob Eschenmoser (5 August 1925 – 14 July 2023) was a Swiss organic chemist, best known for his work on the synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural compounds, most notably vitamin B12. In addition to his significant contributions to ...

, chemistry * 1979

Phillip Griffiths Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He is a major developer in particular ...

, mathematics * 1981

Jacques Friedel Jacques Friedel ForMemRS (; 11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist and material scientist. Education Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the É ...

, physics * 1983

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. Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory ...

, mathematics * 1986 Rudolf Thauer jr, biology * 1987 Alex Müller and

Georg Bednorz Johannes Georg Bednorz (; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Life and work Bednorz was bor ...

, physics * 1989 Dieter Oesterhelt, biochemistry * 1991

Jean-Pierre Demailly Jean-Pierre Demailly (25 September 1957 – 17 March 2022) was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences. Early life and educ ...

, mathematics * 1993 Richard N. Zare, chemistry * 1995

Donald M. Eigler Donald M. Eigler (March 23, 1953) is an American physicist associated with the IBM Almaden Research Center, who is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. Work In 1989, Eigler was the first to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arr ...

, physics * 1997 Regine Kahmann, biology * 1999

Wolfgang Ketterle Wolfgang Ketterle (; born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zer ...

, physics * 2001 Christopher C. Cummins, chemistry * 2003

Michael Neuberger Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS FMedSci (2 November 1953 – 26 October 2013) was a British biochemist and immunologist. Biography Born in Kensington, Michael Samuel Neuberger was the fourth of five children of Albert Neuberger and Lilian Ida ...

, biology * 2005 Richard Taylor, mathematics * 2007 Bertrand I. Halperin, physics * 2009 Gerald F. Joyce, biology * 2012 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, chemistry * 2013 Emmanuel Jean Candès, mathematics * 2015 Andrea Cavalleri, physics * 2018 , chemistry * 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics * 2021

Viola Priesemann Viola Priesemann (born 28 April 1982) is a German physicist and computational neuroscientist. One of her research priorities is to explore how the human brain organizes its neuronal capacities, to enable meaningful information processing. Edu ...

, physics * 2024 Mayuko Yamashita, mathematical physics {{div col end

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