Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize
The Eugen-und-Ilse-Seibold-Preis (own spelling: Eugen und Ilse Seibold-Preis ) for the promotion of science and for the understanding between Germany and Japan was donated in 1997 by the marine geologist Eugen Seibold and his wife Ilse Seibold . The prize was awarded every two years by the German Research Foundation to one Japanese and one German scientist . It was endowed with 10,000 euros each. The foundation's assets of 150,000 euros come from the prize money for the Blue Planet Prize, which Eugen Seibold and Lester R. Brown received from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation in 1994.
The prize was awarded for the last time in 2020, this time to four scientists and each with a grant of 15,000 euros, which meant that the foundation's assets were used up.
Previous winners
| year | Japanese scientist | German scientist |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Zentaro Kitagawa , law scholar at Kyoto University | Bruno Lewin , Japanologist at the Ruhr University Bochum |
| 1999 | Yasuo Tanaka , astrophysicist at Tokyo University | Hans-Joachim Queisser , experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart |
| 2001 | Mishima Ken'ichi , philosopher at Osaka University | Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit , Japanologist at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo |
| 2003 | Shigemasa Suga , physicist at Osaka University | Wolfgang Knoll , polymer chemist and physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz |
| 2005 | Tatsuji Iwabuchi , theater scholar at Gakushuin University in Tokyo | Josef Kreiner , Japanologist at the University of Bonn |
| 2007 | Hideo Nakamura , civil engineer | Klaus Ploog , solid state electronics technician |
| 2009 | Makoto Ida , legal scholar | Wolfgang Schamoni , Japanologist |
| 2011 | Kazuyuki Tatsumi , chemist at Nagoya University | Gerhard Erker , chemist at the University of Münster |
| 2015 | Miyoko Motozawa , family and social lawyer | Gesine Foljanty-Jost , political scientist and Japanologist |
| 2017 | Takeshi Tsubata , immunologist | Thomas Bock , building robotics engineer |
| 2019 | Kōichirō Agata , administrative scientist | Harald Baum , legal scholar |
| 2020 |
Shigeyoshi Inoue , chemist
Hidenori Takagi , materials physicist Kanako Takayama , law scholar |
Regine Mathias , Japan historian |