Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)

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The Dannie Heineman Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen has been awarded every two years since 1961 for recently published outstanding work, particularly on new and current research topics. It is given preference to younger scientists in the natural sciences and mathematics. It is named after Dannie Heineman , an American philanthropist, engineer and businessman whose mother was from Germany. The prize winner requires the approval of the Minna James Heineman Foundation.

There are also Dannie Heineman Awards from the American Physical Society, namely the Dannie Heineman Award for Mathematical Physics and the Dannie Heineman Award for Astrophysics .

Award winners

Each with the official awards

  • 1961 James Franck , for his work on photosynthesis
  • 1963 Edmund Hlawka for his work on the geometry of numbers
  • 1965 Georg Wittig , for his fundamental work in the field of organometallic chemistry and organic anion chemistry
  • 1967 Martin Schwarzschild , for his work on stellar evolution
  • 1967 Gobind Khorana , for his work on the synthesis of polynucleotides, which led to essential insights into the structure and function of nucleic acids and to the deciphering of the genetic code
  • 1969 Brian Pippard , for his work on the dynamics of conduction electrons in metals, in particular the measurement of the Fermi surface of copper and non-local extension of the London electrodynamics of the superconductor
  • 1971 Neil Bartlett , Inorganic Chemistry, for his excellent experimental investigations in the field of noble gas compounds which he opened up
  • 1973 Igor Schafarewitsch , mathematics
  • 1975 Philip Warren Anderson , Physics, particularly for his work on Anderson localization
  • 1977 Albert Eschenmoser , Organic Chemistry
  • 1979 Phillip Griffiths , mathematics
  • 1981 Jacques Friedel , physics
  • 1983 Gerd Faltings , proof of the Mordell presumption
  • 1986 Rudolf Thauer the Younger , Microbiology
  • 1987 Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz for high temperature superconductors
  • 1989 Dieter Oesterhelt for his fundamental contributions to membrane biochemistry, the understanding of photosynthesis and the crystallization of the photosynthetic reaction center .
  • 1991 Jean-Pierre Demailly for his work Champs magnétiques et inégalités de Morse pour la d - cohomologie
  • 1993 Richard N. Zare , for his fundamental work on the effect of the excitation of specific internal degrees of freedom on the course of bimolecular chemical reactions .
  • 1995 Donald M. Eigler , for his pioneering investigations into the quantum mechanical behavior of semiconductor components in the nano range
  • 1997 Regine Kahmann , for experimentally difficult and trend-setting molecular genetic studies on the Ustilago Maydis fungus
  • 1999 Wolfgang Ketterle for his convincing demonstration of the coherence in a Bose-Einstein condensate made of ultra-cold sodium atoms .
  • 2001 Christopher C. Cummins , for fundamental work on the activation of small molecules by metal complexes and on the isolation of reactive intermediates in these reactions and on the characterization of crucial reaction steps in atom transfer reactions mediated by metal complexes .
  • 2003 Michael Neuberger for his work on creating molecular diversity in the immune system through somatic hypermutation
  • 2005 Richard Taylor , Mathematics, for his work On the Modularity of elliptic curves over Q
  • 2007 Bertrand I. Halperin for numerous outstanding contributions to statistical physics and theoretical solid-state physics, especially dynamic critical phenomena and low-dimensional electronic properties .
  • 2009 Gerald F. Joyce for “Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme”, published in 2009 together with Tracey A. Lincoln, in Science 323, 1229–1232
  • 2012 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski , for groundbreaking work on controlled polymerisation (ATRP method)
  • 2013 Emmanuel Jean Candès , "as one of the architects of the compressive sensing principle"
  • 2015 Andrea Cavalleri , "for his time-resolved measurements on light-induced phase transitions in highly correlated electron systems"
  • 2018 André Gröschel , "for his work on self-organization processes of colloids and hybrid nanoparticles, in particular for the controlled production of novel structures from well-defined, macromolecular building blocks"
  • 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams , Mathematics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography at the APS
  2. ↑ Events winter semester 2019/2020. (PDF; 8 MB) In: adw-goe.de. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, October 10, 2019, p. 8 , accessed on October 16, 2019 .