Biology Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
The Biology Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen has been awarded by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for outstanding work in biology since 1983 . There are also corresponding prizes for chemistry and physics.
As a rule, the researchers should work in Germany or be German citizens, they must not be over the age of 40 and not yet hold a professorship for life or a corresponding other position. In addition, they must work outside of Göttingen and are not allowed to be students of members of the Göttingen Academy. The candidates are proposed by the respective Academy Award Committees.
Award winners
Partly with laudatory speech.
- 1983 Erko Stackebrandt , Munich
- 1984 Michael Melkonian , Münster
- 1985 Friedrich Widdel , Constance
- 1986 Michael Boppré , Regensburg
- 1987 Barbara Demmig , Würzburg
- 1988 Jörg Hinrich Hacker , Gerbrunn
- 1989 Erwin Grill , Munich
- 1990 Harald Wolf (biologist) , Constance
- 1991 Michael Schlömann , Stuttgart
- 1992 Egbert Franz Tannich , Hamburg
- 1993 Norbert Sauer (biologist) , Regensburg
- 1994 Andreas Holzenburg , Leeds
- 1995 Reinhard Töpfer , Siebeldingen
- 1996 Rudolf Ignaz Amann , Munich
- 1997 Klaus-Gerhard Heller Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1998 Ulrich Ermler , Frankfurt
- 1999 Christof Niehrs (DKFZ Heidelberg) for his work on the molecular mechanism of head induction.
- 2000 Renate Schmidt (biologist) (MPI Züchtungsforschung Cologne) for her work on the physical mapping of chromosomes of the model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).
- 2001 Petra Fromme (TU Berlin) for her work "Crystallization and functional structure analysis of photosystems I and II".
- 2002 Brigitte Röder (psychologist) (University of Marburg) for her work “Neuroscientific investigations into the effects of blindness on cognitive performance and its neural basis”.
- 2003 Dieter Glebe (University of Gießen), for his work "Pre-S1 Antigen-Dependent Infection of Tupaia Hepatocyte Cultures with Human Hepatitis B Virus".
- 2004 Stefan Engelhardt , Würzburg, for his work on the beta-adrenoceptor system in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure.
- 2005 Martin Göpfert , Brühl, for his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of micromechanical and molecular processes in the sound perception of insects.
- 2006 Margarete Baier University of Bielefeld, for her outstanding contributions to research into the importance of redox regulation for the adaptation of the metabolism of plant cells to changing environmental conditions.
- 2007 Judith Korb , University of Regensburg, for her important scientific work on the sociobiology of termite states.
- 2008 Andreas Kappler , University of Tübingen, for his groundbreaking research on the geobiology of the global microbial iron cycle.
- 2009 Ilka Diester , Stanford, for her work on the neural basis of higher cognitive abilities, in particular the existence of numerical categories in the cerebral cortex of non-human primates.
- 2010 Birte Höcker , Tübingen, for her outstanding contributions to the understanding of the evolution of enzymes.
- 2012 Alessandra Moretti , TU Munich, for her fundamental work on the importance of stem cells in the development of the human heart and the study of hereditary heart diseases.
- 2016 Zongjun Yin (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology), for his groundbreaking research on the origin of the Metazoa (animals) and their early fossil record in the Ediacarian of China.