Golden Kraepelin medal
The Golden Kraepelin Medal is an award for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of psychiatry or the associated basic research and is awarded by the German Research Institute for Psychiatry Foundation every five to ten years.
The medal was donated in 1928 in memory of Emil Kraepelin , the founder of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (today the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry ). The occasion was the opening of a new institute building. The award winner is selected by an international committee chaired by the respective managing director of the institute and the professor for psychiatry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
The Golden Kraepelin Medal is one of the most prestigious scientific awards in medicine internationally .
Award winners
- 1928 Oskar Vogt (Berlin)
- 1956 Ernst Kretschmer (Tübingen) and Ludwig Binswanger (Kreuzlingen)
- 1964 Martin Reichardt (Würzburg)
- 1966 Karl T. Neubuerger (Denver), Kurt Schneider (Heidelberg) and Willibald Scholz (Munich)
- 1976 Walter Ritter von Baeyer (Heidelberg), Manfred Bleuler (Zurich) and Erik Strömgen (Risskov / Denmark)
- 1978 Berta Scharrer (Bronx)
- 1984 Seymour S. Kety (Washington)
- 1986 Martin Roth (Cambridge)
- 1992 Jules Angst (Zurich)
- 1997 Arvid Carlsson (Gothenburg)
- 2003 Hanns Möhler (Zurich)
- 2006 Detlev von Zerssen (Munich)
- 2012 Tomas Hökfelt (Stockholm)
- 2014 Ron de Kloet (Maarssen / Netherlands), Teruhiko Higuchi (Kobe / Japan) and Alan Schatzberg (New York)
Web links
- Golden Kraepelin Medal (as of 2006) ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Tomas Hökfelt was honored with the Golden Kraepelin Medal. In: psych.mpg.de. November 15, 2012, accessed May 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Ron de Kloet, Teruhiko Higuchi and Alan Schatzberg receive the Golden Kraepelin Medal. In: psych.mpg.de. October 1, 2014, accessed May 16, 2016 .