Anneliese Maier Research Prize
The Anneliese Maier Research Prize is awarded to top executives from the humanities and social sciences from abroad whose previous scientific achievements are internationally recognized in their field. The prize is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . The winners themselves choose with whom they want to cooperate in Germany. The research collaborations are carried out over a period of up to five years. The research award is endowed with 250,000 euros.
Goal of the price
The aim is to further internationalize the humanities and social sciences in Germany on a sustainable basis. In addition to scientists who already belong to the established top group in their field, people from science who are not yet so advanced in their academic careers, but who are already internationally recognized, are to be addressed, who have a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences in Germany through long-term collaborations can be expected.
nomination
The nomination is made by scientists in Germany; you cannot apply yourself. The award winners are expected to conduct active, scientifically influential research over the next few years. Particular emphasis is placed on the nominations of qualified female scientists.
Namesake
The prize was named after the German philosopher and science historian Anneliese Maier (born 1905 in Tübingen, died 1971 in Rome). She studied philosophy, physics and mathematics in Berlin, Zurich and Paris and received her doctorate in 1929 on "Kant's quality categories". For political reasons she was denied her habilitation during the Nazi era. For a researcher of the time, her biography is unusually international. Maier researched the development of modern scientific thinking from the 14th to the 18th century, particularly in the natural sciences. In 1951 she was awarded the title of professor by the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, and in 1954 she was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society . She was also a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Mainz, Göttingen and Munich.
Award winners
The Anneliese Maier Research Prize was first awarded to seven scientists in 2011. The Humboldt Foundation awards up to eight of the Anneliese Maier Research Awards donated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for each nomination round. In the meantime (as of 2018) the award has been awarded to 47 scientists.
- 2012 Katharina Boele-Woelki , James Conant , Nicholas Evans , Shaun Gallagher , Patrick Geary , Michele Gelfand , Birgit Meyer
- 2013 Michal Biran , Eva Illouz , Marie-Louise Bech Nosch , Francis Jeffry Pelletier , Jean J. du Plessis , Himanshu Prabha Ray , Jeffrey W. Sherman
- 2014 Mary E. Beckman , Geert Bouckaert , Maribel Fierro , Kit Fine , Ulrike Hahn , Donald Tomaskovic-Devey , Kathleen Vohs , Greg Woolf
- 2015 Hans Beck , Robert B. Brandom , Angelos Chaniotis , Kristian S. Gleditsch , Jeffrey F. Hamburger , Susan E. Irvine , Pamela E. Klassen , Niklaus Largier , Mark Turner , Paul Julian Weindling , Jean Winand
- 2016 Ève Chiapello , E. Tory Higgins , Glenn W. Most , Daniel Müllensiefen , Sumathi Ramaswamy , Marti G. Subrahmanyam
- 2018 Douglas Cairns , José Maurício Domingues , Pascal Mamassian , Alan Mikhail , Ingrid Piller , Annelise Riles , Sylvia Walby , Hui Wang