Eduard Rhein Foundation

The Eduard Rhein Foundation based in Hamburg in 1976 by Eduard Rhein (1900-1993), the founding editor of the journal Hörzu , founded. The foundation is headed by Hans-Joachim Grallert (since 2015), before that from 1990 by Rolf Gartz , Eduard Rhein's nephew. The foundation's capital has grown from originally two million DM to ten million euros . The purpose of the foundation is to promote scientific research as well as education, upbringing, art and culture at home and abroad. Prizes are awarded for this.

Prices

• Base price (25,000 euros)
• Technology Prize (30,000 euros)
• Culture award (endowed with 10,000 euros, chairman of the jury: Michael Wolffsohn )
• Eduard-Rhein-Ehrenring ( moonstone set in gold), the number of living bearers is limited to ten.
• Youth prizes (as part of the federal youth research competition , 1,500 euros each)

Bearer of the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor

• 1980 Vladimir Zworykin †
• 1981 Walter Bruch †
• 1982 Max Grundig †
• 1983 Karl Holzamer †
• 1984 Herbert von Karajan †
• 1985 Hugh Greene †
• 1986 Masaru Ibuka †
• 1987 Werner Höfer †
• 1988 Ray Dolby †
• 1992 Rudolf Hell †
• 1994 Lennart Bernadotte †
• 1998 Heinz Zemanek †
• 2000 Heinrich von Pierer
• 2001 Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
• 2002 Hans-Jürgen Warnecke
• 2004 Hubert Markl †
• 2007 Valentina Tereshkova
• 2008 Herbert Mataré †
• 2012 Michael Sohlman
• 2015 Wolfgang Heckl
• 2020 Gerd Hirzinger

Winner of the Eduard Rhein Prize

In 1990 Eduard Rhein (left) presented Manfred Börner with the award certificate of the basic prize

• 1979
  • Technology Prize: Nobutoshi Kihara for extremely dense image recording on magnetic tape ; Yuma Shiraishi for basic work for the Video Home System ; Johannes H. Wessels for contributions to magnetic image recording
• 1980
  • Technology Prize: B. Wendland, G. Broussard, K. Compaan, Jon K. Clemens, G. Dickopp, Eugene O. Keizer and Piet Kramer for alternatives to future TV systems; Horst Redlich for developing the optical disk system
• 1981
  • Technology award : Günter Joschko and Werner Scholz for the mini disk; Minoru Morio and Shigeyuki Ochi for the video movie; Katsuo Mori and Masahuru Kubo for the MAG camera; Lodewijk F. Ottens and Toshitada Doi for the compact disc ; Dalton D. Pritchard for the Dynamic Processing System
• 1982
  • Technology Prize: Max Aigner , Siegfried Dinsel , Herbert Hopf and Rudolf Kaiser for stereo sound television in Germany; Hans-Jürgen Kluth for the stereo audio helical track recording at VCR ; Hiroki Sato for the first production-ready flat screen
• 1983
  • Technology award : Ljubumir Micic for Digivision, digital TV signal processing; Etsuro Saito for Mavica , an electronic still camera; Horst Redlich for the DMM process for long-playing records
  • Culture Prize: Ulrich Kienzle for Bloody Summer - Reunion with Beirut ; Marlene Linke for The Erlanger Wanted Child
• 1984
  • Technology Prize: A. Schauer, E. Geffcken, D. Littwin, W. Veith, K. Weingang and R. Wengert for the first color flat screen from Germany; Robert Suhrmann and Eckart Pech for color coding for the digital HDTV video processor
  • Culture Prize: Klaus Juhnke , F. Müller and H. von Barnekow: Der Fall K .; Gernot Friedel and Martin Gregor-Dellin for Ich bin wie Othello ; ARD team Warsaw for Poland reporting; H. Giersberg and W. Trapp for The Forgotten War
• 1985
  • Technology Prize: Walter Bruch for time-sequential luminance - chrominance coding; Thomas S. Robson for the MAC system for satellite television ; Takashi Okada and Masayuki Hongo for flicker-free TV color system; Shinji Morozumi for the flat screen LCD portable television; Eckard Krüger , A. Heller and U. Kraus for the video programming system ; F. Schröder and F. Stollenwerk for the specialist article television with increased picture quality
  • Culture Prize: Eberhard Fechner for The Trial ; Christoph Maria Fröhder for police agents - Lockspitzel in the twilight ; Peter Hajek for Helwein - film portrait of a painter ; Roland Schraut and Joachim Meßner for Live Forever - Portrait of a Centenarian ; Werner Klett for a lazy farmer
• 1986
  • Technology Prize: K. Beckmann and D. Krahé for coding methods for audio signals; Wolf-Peter Buchwald for increased image resolution for TV color cameras; Stanley C. Fralick and Andrew Tescher for the videophone ; Otto Klank , Heinz Röbel and Peter Treytl for digital radio via satellite; Kenzo Agakiri and Kenji Nakano for the DAT multi-track PCM cartridge ; Charles Schepers for the Digicontrol system for televisions
  • Culture Prize: Georg Stefan Troller for Stan Rivkin ; Hans Peter Stadler for the sufferings of the vanquished ; Volker doctor for timetable into chaos ; Hans-Dieter Grabe for Hiroshima - Nagasaki ; Ray Müller for Night of the Indians
• 1987
  • Technology Prize: Robert R. Bathelt for the Flat & Square picture tube; Richard R. Taylor for the Quantel Box, TV image processing; Robert Suhrmann for the TV converter with CCD image memory; Yasuro Hori and Kentaro Hanma for the color video printer; Rudolf Vollmer for the book Satellitentechnik mit D2-MAC
  • Culture Prize: Hans-Dieter Grabe for Why did I kill my daughter? ; Anke Ritter for Where Taxi Drivers Read Tolstoy ; Irene Disch for Zacharias - a picture of life
  • Special prize: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , moderation of the day's events on television
• 1988
  • Technology Prize: Peter Brody for the basics of TFT liquid displays ; DE Castleberry and William W. Piper for high resolution color LCD; Shigeo Mikoshiba and Shinichi Shinada for improved plasma screens
  • Culture Prize: Peter Leippe for Silent Days in Sommieres ; Michael Schmomers and Peter Kleinert for toxic, corrosive, explosive ; Ch. Berg, Michael Geyer and Jürgen Koch for Eine Queen is lifted
  • Special award: Hans Abich for his efforts to build up radio and television in Germany after 1945
  • Honorary award: EUREKA directorate (PW Bögels, G. Bolle, M. Hareng, RW Young) for the HD-MAC standard
• 1989
  • Technology Prize: Akira Hirota for the Euro-S-VHS video system; Rainer Lüder and Gerhard Weil for the feature box chipset for televisions
  • Culture Prize: Gabriel Heim for There is no sound of victory calls ; Heike Mundzeck for Chronicle of a Rebirth and Rolf Pflücke for ... and in the evening in prison
  • Special prize: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , quiz master and entertainer
• 1990
  • Basic Prize: Manfred Börner for the basics of optical communications technology
  • Technology award : Isamu Washizuka , Kozo Yano and Hiroshi Take for the flat 14-inch LCD color screen
• 1991
  • Foundation Prize: Claude Elwood Shannon for the foundations of modern information theory
  • Technology award: B. Strebel et al. for the technological fundamentals of optical frequency division multiplexing with superimposition reception
  • Culture Prize: Bernard Shaw for exemplary journalistic reporting in a trend-setting style
• 1992
  • Technology Prize: Scott A. Brownstein and Stephen S. Stepnes for an analog-digital image processing network; Abraham Hoogendoorn et al. for digital compact cassette system
• 1993
  • Basic award : Alfred Fettweis and Hans Wilhelm Schüßler for basic work on digital signal processing
  • Technology award : Masao Tomioka and Shuhei Yasuda for LC TV projection with ultra-high resolution for HDTV
  • Culture award: Ernst Waldemar Bauer and Gero von Boehm for outstanding journalistic television reports
• 1994
  • Basic Prize: Andrew J. Viterbi for the decoding concept for convolutional codes ( Viterbi algorithm ); Gottfried Ungerböck for the concept of trellis-coded modulation
  • Technology award : Marcian Edward Hoff for the invention of the microcomputer
• 1995
  • Basic award: Konrad Zuse for the development of the first freely programmable computer system that works in binary floating point arithmetic
  • Technology award : Larry Hornbeck for the digital micromirror matrix
  • Culture Prize: Heinz Bethge and Anthony Michaelis for decades of work for the freedom of science
• 1996
  • Basic award: Richard Hamming for the basics of error-correcting coding ( Hamming distance , Hamming code )
  • Technology award: Jürgen Dethloff and Roland Moreno for the invention and development of chip card technologies
  • Culture Prize: Sonja Bernadotte for organizing the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau
• 1997
  • Basic award : Yasuharu Suematsu for semiconductors and integrated optics for applications in optical communication systems
  • Technology award: Thomas Haug , Heikki Huttunen and Jan Uddenfeldt for the development of the digital mobile phone system ( GSM )
  • Culture Prize: John Maddox , longtime editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Nature
• 1998
  • Basic price: Jacob Ziv for his decisive contributions to information and coding theory , particularly for work on an information theory for individual data sequences for the construction of the universal, lossless Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm led
  • Technology Prize: Tim Berners-Lee for the creation and development of the World Wide Web
  • Ring of honor: Heinz Zemanek for his decades of activities that unite people, especially in connection with his outstanding scientific achievements in the fields of information technology, cybernetics and philosophy
• 1999
  • Basic award: Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Kotelnikow for the first theoretically exact formulation of the sampling theorem
  • Technology award : Leonardo Chiariglione for the conception and implementation of the MPEG standards for coding moving image and sound signals, in particular the digital television standard MPEG-2 , which is recognized worldwide ; Fabio Rocca for the invention of motion compensation in the coding of moving image signals and for fundamental work on hybrid coding with motion estimation
  • Culture Prize: Joachim Fest for his outstanding scientific and journalistic work
• 2000
  • Basic award : Ingrid Daubechies for wavelets , the basis of digital image coding
  • Technology award: Norman Abramson for ALOHAnet , the first radio network for wireless Internet access
  • Culture Prize: Ranga Yogeshwar for popular science contributions on German television
• 2001
  • Basic award : David N. Payne for the invention of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)
  • Technology Prize: José Luis Moreira da Encarnação for the basics of graphic data processing
  • Culture Prize: Gerold Lingnau for informative newspaper reports on technological developments
• 2002
  • Basic award : Robert Gray Gallager for fundamental contributions to information theory such as the low-density parity check code and to the theory of computer networks
  • Technology award: Niklaus Wirth for the development of Pascal , the first structured programming language
  • Culture Prize: Armin Maiwald for decades of efforts to present technical issues on television in a child-friendly manner
• 2003
  • Basic award: Paul J. Kühn for fundamental contributions to traffic theory and pioneering work in the definition of protocols for packet-switching telecommunications networks
  • Technology award: Paul Christian Lauterbur for the invention of magnetic resonance tomography
  • Culture Prize: Ernst Peter Fischer for his book The Other Education
• 2004
  • Technology Prize: Manfred Schroeder for fundamental contributions to room and psychoacoustics as well as the invention of linear predictive coding and the codebook exited coding of language
  • Culture Prize: Gerhard Vollmer for his book Evolutionary Epistemology
• 2005
  • Technology award : Hisashi Kobayashi , François Dolivo and Evangelos S. Eleftheriou for the introduction of digital signal processing and coding methods in hard disk memories
  • Culture award: Science editorial team of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , represented by the responsible editor Andreas Sentker , for outstanding reports on current developments in the natural sciences, medicine and technology
• 2006
  • Basic award: Stephen B. Weinstein for the application of the fast Fourier transformation technique to orthogonal frequency multiplexing , which made digital video broadcasting , digital subscriber line and digital audio broadcasting possible
  • Technology award: Ulrich Reimers for the development, standardization and implementation of digital television (DVB)
  • Culture Prize: Rolf Becker for contributions to popular science in the Umschau pharmacy that he founded
• 2007
  • Technology award: Gerhard Sessler for the development of electret sound transducers and, in particular, the co-invention of the electret microphone and the silicon condenser microphone
  • Culture Prize: Paul Dobrinski for the publication of scientific and technical work by young people in the journal Junge Wissenschaft
  • Ring of Honor: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova for her achievements in the field of manned spaceflight
• 2008
  • Technology award : Siegfried Dais and Uwe Kiencke for the invention, international standardization and dissemination of the “ Controller Area Network ” (CAN), which is now the global market leader
  • Culture award: Norbert Lossau for excellent science and technology-related articles in daily newspapers
  • Ring of honor: Herbert F. Mataré for his invention of the semiconductor amplifier ( transistor ), which he made independently in 1948 and at the same time as Bell Labs , as well as for his decades of outstanding achievements in the field of information technology, semiconductor physics and industrial semiconductor production.
• 2009
  • Technology award: Martin Schadt - Electro-optical basic technologies for flat screens
  • Culture Prize: Klaus Rehfeld - Outstanding popular scientific reporting on scientific topics.
• 2010
  • Technology award: Jens-Rainer Ohm and Thomas Wiegand for contributions to video coding and the development of the H.264 / AVC standard
  • Culture award: Jimmy D. Wales - founder and developer of the free and international encyclopedia Wikipedia
• 2011
  • Technology award: Wolfgang Hilberg for the invention of the continuous, digitally coded normal time radio transmission and for contributions to the realization of radio receivers.
  • Culture Prize: Raymond Samuel Tomlinson for the invention of standardized electronic mail, which today as e-mail enables the simple exchange of information worldwide via the Internet and has decisively changed the communication behavior of mankind.
• 2012
  • Technology Award: Bradford Parkinson for the development of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ).
  • Culture Prize: Dov Moran for the invention of a standardized portable data storage stick , which is now called a USB stick .
• 2013
  • Technology award: Ching W. Tang for the invention of highly efficient organic semiconductor components .
  • Culture Prize: Jugend forscht "in recognition of the special role of the competition as a unique initiative for promoting young talent."
• 2014
  • Technology award : Kees A. Schouhamer Immink "for contributions to the theory and practice of channel coding, which enables efficient and reliable optical data recording, as well as for creative contributions to digital recording technology."
  • Culture Prize: Dava Sobel "for her in-depth knowledge of the natural sciences and her literary talent, which allow her to combine facts and fiction by fusing scientific adventures and human stories, thereby giving the history of natural sciences a human face."
• 2015
  • Technology award: Karlheinz Brandenburg , Bernhard Grill and Jürgen Herre "for decisive contributions to the development and practical implementation of the mp3 audio coding process."
• 2016
  • Technology Prize: Blake S. Wilson for Continuous Interleaved Sampling , which "has led to a significant improvement in patient speech understanding since the introduction of cochlear implants in the late 1980s"; Erwin Hochmair and Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer "for the development and commercial implementation of the first multi-channel cochlear implant."
• 2017
  • Technology award: Ernst D. Dickmanns "for decisive contributions to autonomous driving ."
• 2018
  • Technology Award : Rajiv Laroia "for his fundamental work on Flash-OFDM ."
  • Culture award: Jean Pütz "for his life's work as a science journalist."
• 2019
  • Technology award : Andrea Urban and Franz Laermer "for the invention of reactive ion deep etching (Bosch process), a key process for the manufacture of semiconductor sensors ."
  • Culture award: Robert Schlögl "for his excellent performance and his extraordinary competence in communicating scientific findings to the public and politics."
• 2020
  • Technology award : Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller "for the invention of cryptography based on elliptic curves."
  • Culture award: Eckart von Hirschhausen "for his outstanding success in science communication with the help of humor and entertainment."

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Rhein Foundation | The Foundation. In: eduard-rhein-stiftung.de, accessed on March 11, 2020.
2. ↑ Michael Wolffsohn : Thank you very much for the USB stick. In: Welt am Sonntag . October 14, 2012, accessed October 20, 2012 . 
3. ↑ The German inventor of the transistor. In: DIE WELT ONLINE . November 14, 2008, accessed March 11, 2020.
4. ^ Wikipedia founder Wales honored in Munich. In: DIE ZEIT ONLINE . October 17, 2010, accessed on March 11, 2020 (source: dpa).
5. ^ Norbert Lossau: Inventor of the compact disc receives Eduard Rhein Prize. In: DIE WELT ONLINE . October 18, 2014, accessed March 11, 2020.