Alfried Krupp Science Prize
The Alfried Krupp Science Award was set up by the Krupp Foundation in 1998 in memory of its founder Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach . The prize, endowed with 52,000 euros each, was awarded every two years until 2006 to academics in the humanities, law and economics as well as natural and engineering sciences.
Award winners
- 1998: Rudolf Smend , Protestant theologian; Dieter Oesterhelt , biochemist
- 2000: Friedrich Hirzebruch , mathematician; Konrad Repgen , historian
- 2002: Wolfgang Frühwald , Germanist; Theodor W. Hänsch , physicist; Herbert Walther , physicist
- 2004: Hermann Lübbe , philosopher (Zurich); Bert Hölldobler , biologist (Würzburg)
- 2006: Jan Assmann , Egyptologist (Heidelberg / Konstanz); Eberhard Zeidler , mathematician (Leipzig)