Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize

The Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize honors scientists for individual contributions and life's works, usually in German, which show ways to improve life mentally and materially .

It is endowed with 20,000 euros and has been awarded every two years since 1970 by the Münster University Society (formerly: Society for the Promotion of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster). The contributions are selected alternately from the field of natural sciences / medicine and the humanities. The German Research Foundation , the Max Planck Society , the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft , each department of the University of Münster and the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees of the University Society of Münster are entitled to make proposals .

The price was decided by the board of directors on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary in 1968 and awarded for the first time in 1970. It is named after the long-time chairman Ernst Hellmut Vits .

Award winners

1970: Adolf Butenandt - Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

1972: Alfred Müller-Armack - Economic Theory and Politics

1974: Wolfgang Gentner - Nuclear and Radiation Physics; Bernhard Rensch - Zoology
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1976: Hans Albert - Economics and Social Science

1978: Hans Kuhn - physical chemistry and evolutionary theory

1980: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker - Physics and Natural Philosophy

1982: Ludwig Demling - internal medicine, gastroenterology

1983: Erika Simon - archeology; Karl Stackmann - German Studies
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1986: Peter Starlinger - Genetics, Transposition Research

1988: Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker - Foreign and International Private Law

1990: Otto D. Creutzfeldt - Biophysical Chemistry, Neurobiology; Erwin Neher - Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics; Bert Sakmann - Medical Research, Cell Physiology
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1996: Harald Weinrich - Romance studies, German studies

1998: Herbert Walther - Physics

2000: Günther Patzig - Philosophy

2002: Wolf Singer - Neurobiology

2004: Christian Meier - Ancient History

2006: Manfred T. Reetz - Organic Chemistry

2008: Renate Mayntz - Social Research , Social Theory

2010: Stefan Hell - optical microscopes with nanometer resolution

2012: Dietmar Willoweit - Legal History

2014: François Diederich - Organic Chemistry

2016: Martin Hellwig - Economics

2018: Peter H. Seeberger - Colloid Chemistry

Web links

Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize at the University of Münster (uni-muenster.de)

Remarks

↑ Jochen Herwig: On the award of the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize 2008 . In: Otmar Schober (ed.): The modern state - idea and reality. Contributions from the academic ceremony for the award of the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize to Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. hc mult. Renate Mayntz . Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-14725-2 , p. 8.
↑ On Vits see Ernst Hellmut Vits , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/1970 of March 16, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

[1] Jochen Herwig: On the award of the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize 2008 . In: Otmar Schober (ed.): The modern state - idea and reality. Contributions from the academic ceremony for the award of the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize to Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. hc mult. Renate Mayntz . Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-14725-2 , p. 8.

[2] On Vits see Ernst Hellmut Vits , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/1970 of March 16, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)