HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
The HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics is a science prize for biochemistry and biophysics awarded every three years since 1964 and every two years since 1988 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
The prize was endowed with 200,000 fl from 1984 and 250,000 fl from 1994. The winners have received US $ 150,000 in prize money since 2000, and US $ 200,000 since 2014. Since 2010, the Heineken Young Scientists Award, endowed with 10,000 euros , has also been given to young researchers.
Eight of the 26 award winners (as of early 2020) later won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or a Nobel Prize in Chemistry . The AH-Heineken Prize for Medicine is also awarded by the KNAW, the winners of which have often later won a Nobel Prize.
Award winners
- 1964 Erwin Chargaff
- 1967 Jean Brachet
- 1970 Britton Chance
- 1973 Christian de Duve (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974)
- 1976 Laurens van Deenen
- 1979 Aaron Klug (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982)
- 1982 Charles Weissmann
- 1985 Béla Julesz , Werner Reichardt
- 1988 Thomas R. Cech (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989)
- 1990 Philip Leder
- 1992 Piet Borst
- 1994 Michael Berridge
- 1996 Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
- 1998 Anthony Pawson
- 2000 James Rothman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013)
- 2002 Roger Tsien (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008)
- 2004 Andrew Z. Fire (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006)
- 2006 Alec John Jeffreys
- 2008 Jack Szostak (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009)
- 2010 Franz-Ulrich Hartl
- 2012 Titia de Lange
- 2014 Christopher M. Dobson
- 2016 Jennifer Doudna
- 2018 Xiaowei Zhuang
- 2020 Bruce Stillman
Web links
- Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics at knaw.nl
- Dr HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics at heinekenprizes.com