Adolf Fick Prize
The Adolf Fick Foundation's Adolf Fick Prize is considered the most important award in the field of German-speaking physiology . It has been awarded to one or more outstanding physiologists every five years since 1929 and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2019). The Adolf Fick Medal is also awarded to the laureate .
The prize was donated by his sons on the 100th birthday of Adolf Eugen Fick ; Administration and allocation was to be carried out by the Physikalisch-Medizingesellschaft Würzburg .
Nominations are made exclusively by members of the physiological societies in German-speaking countries and should describe the scope of the nominees' scientific work. The committee for determining the award winner consists (as of 2019) of a board member of the Physiological Institute of the University of Würzburg , two board members of the German Physiological Society , the chairman of the Physico-Medical Society of Würzburg and a descendant of Adolf Fick. According to the announcement, the award winner should not be older than 45 years, have published outstanding work in the field of physiology or one of its border areas in the last five years and speak German as their mother tongue (regardless of nationality).
Award winners
- 1929 Hermann Rein
- 1934 Hans Spemann
- 1939 Karl Lohmann
- 1944 Hans Schaefer
- 1949 Carl Martius
- 1954 Herbert Hensel
- 1959 Robert Stämpfli
- 1964 Martin Klingenberg
- 1969 Gerhard Thews
- 1974 Johann Caspar Rüegg
- 1979 Ute Gröschel-Stewart
- 1984 Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
- 1988 Rainer Greger
- 1994 Heini Murer
- 1999 Arthur Konnerth
- 2004 Thomas Jentsch
- 2009 Peter Jonas
- 2014 Ralf P. Brandes
- 2019 Carsten Wagner
Web links
- German Physiological Society: Adolf Fick Prize 2019
- ↑ Adolf Fick Prize 2019 to Carsten Wagner. In: physiol.uzh.ch. September 30, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .