Braunschweig Research Prize

The Braunschweig Research Prize has been awarded every two years since 2007 “for internationally outstanding interdisciplinary research results in the technical, life or cultural sciences”. The prize is endowed with 30,000 euros (as of 2011).

Until 2003 the Braunschweig Prize (with 50,000 euros the most valuable research prize of a German municipality ) was awarded.

Award winners

Winner of the Braunschweig Prize

• 1999: Michael Georgieff, University Clinic for Anaesthesiology , Ulm
• 2001: Bertram Batlogg (ETH Zurich), with Christian Kloc ( Bell Laboratories , Lucent Technologies , New Jersey ) and Jan Hendrik Schön (price was returned after the forgery scandal.)
• 2003: Brian Druker (American cancer researcher)

Winner of the Braunschweig Research Prize

• 2007: Sebastian Thrun (Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University)
• 2009: Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg (for the development of a solar aircraft Solar Impulse HB-SIA)
• 2011: Petra Schwille (biophysicist at the University of Dresden)
• 2014: Ursula Staudinger (psychologist and aging researcher at Columbia University)
• 2016: Martin Winter (materials scientist at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster)
• 2018: Karsten Danzmann (physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

Web links

• Braunschweig Research Prize
• Former websites of the Braunschweig Prize ( Memento from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive