Zeiss Research Award
The Zeiss Research Award ( spelling ZEISS Research Award , until 2013 Carl Zeiss Research Award ) is a prize for “outstanding achievements in the field of international research”. The award has been sponsored and awarded by the Carl Zeiss company since 2016 . It is to be awarded every two years.
history
The Carl Zeiss Research Award was launched in 1987 as an international award in the field of optics research and existed under this name until 2013. The award alternated every two years with the Otto Schott Research Award for special achievements in glass research. The Carl Zeiss Research Award was last endowed with 25,000 euros and was awarded by the Ernst Abbe Fund in the Stifterverband for German Science .
The Ernst Abbe Fund has been awarding the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers for young scientists in the field of optics and photonics since 2016 .
Award winners
Winner of the Carl Zeiss Research Award
- 1990: Philippe Grangier from Orsay , James R. Taylor from London , Norbert Streibl from Erlangen
- 1992: Ahmed Zewail from Pasadena , Yoshihisa Yamamoto from Tokyo
- 1994: Heinrich Bräuninger from Garching, Bernd Aschenbach from Garching
- 1996: Eric A. Cornell from Boulder, Dieter Pohl from Zurich
- 1998: Ursula Keller from Zurich , Ferenc Krausz from Vienna
- 2000: Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth from Lübeck , Shuji Nakamura from Santa Barbara
- 2002: Stefan Hell from Göttingen
- 2004: Mark Kasevich from Stanford University in California
- 2006: Kurt Busch from the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics at the University of Karlsruhe , Martin Wegener from the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe
- 2007: Jun Ye from the National Institute of Standards and Technology University of Colorado at Boulder
- 2009: Rainer Blatt from the University of Innsbruck , Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich
- 2011: James G. Fujimoto from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- 2013: Anne L'Huillier from Lund University
Winner of the Zeiss Research Award
- 2016: Fedor Jelezko , Jörg Wrachtrup
- 2018: Tobias Kippenberg , Jean-Pierre Wolf
- 2020: Jian-Wei Pan
Winner of the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers
- 2016: Robert Brückner, Georg Heinze, Robert Keil
- 2018: Irene Costantini, Kilian Heeg, Fabian Stutzki
- 2020: Christian Haffner, Stefan Heist, Fabian Wolf