Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize

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The Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize is a Franco-German science prize created in 1981 by the French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his colleague Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on the recommendation of the German and French research ministries .

The prize, which was awarded for the first time in December 1982, is intended to honor excellent researchers who have made a name for themselves through outstanding contributions to science and who stand for cooperation between the two countries. Every year four to five German and French scientists from all research disciplines are awarded this prize. This was originally named after Alexander von Humboldt and has had the double name Gay-Lussac Humboldt since 1997. Since then it has been awarded to over two hundred French and German researchers. The Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize is awarded by the French Ministry of Education and Research to German researchers nominated by French researchers. On the other hand, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards the Humboldt Research Prize to French researchers who are proposed by German scientists.

Tender

The invitation to tender for the award is published annually at the beginning of autumn on the website of the Ministry of Education and Research (under the heading “Europe and International” or “Forms / Tenders”). The “Direction des relations européennes et internationales et de la coopération” of this ministry forwards the tender to universities and extra-university research institutions.

Namesake

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Alexander von Humboldt are role models for an international team of researchers and cross-border friendship.

After returning from his long trip to America, Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) met Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) at the Société d'Arcueil and the Ecole Polytechnique. There they carried out a series of experiments that brought Gay-Lussac on the trail of his second law - on the ratio of gaseous substances. Humboldt then prepared another research trip through Europe to systematically record geomagnetism . He asked Gay-Lussac to accompany him on this journey, which was to last almost a year. Both scientists carried out measurements in over forty locations, mainly in Lyon, on Mont Cenis, in Rome and Naples, on Vesuvius - which they climbed six times and which they saw erupting in August 1805 - on the Gotthard massif, in Tübingen, Heidelberg , Göttingen and Berlin. On the occasion of their return on September 8, 1806, they published their observations on the intensity and direction of magnetic forces.

Since 1997, the award has fulfilled Humboldt's "... hope that my name will remain associated with his ..."

Award winners

German award winners

French laureates

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Landgraf: Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize 2017 for Johannes Orphal. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, press release from January 22, 2018 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on January 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Susanne Rau et Johannes Orphal lauréats du Prix Gay-Lussac Humboldt 2017 - ESR:. In: enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr. January 25, 2018, accessed January 25, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ Press release from the university. January 29, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Arthur Jacobs receives Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize 2019. In: fu-berlin.de. Free University of Berlin , June 25, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ International award for Frank Glorius. In: uni-muenster.de. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität , May 8, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize for Thomas Henning. In: mpia.de. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy , May 7, 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
  7. ^ Prix ​​Gay-Lussac Humboldt pour A. Bouzdine. In: cnrs.fr. Center national de la recherche scientifique , April 16, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019 (fr-fr).