Haitinger Prize

The Haitinger Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna goes back to a foundation established in 1912 by the chemist and factory director Ludwig Camillo Haitinger (1860–1945), who organized it in honor of his father.

Haitinger worked at Adolf Lieben's chemical laboratory at the University of Vienna. He promoted radium research and, as an employee of Carl Auer von Welsbach, headed “Welsbach-Williams Ltd.” in Vienna-Atzgersdorf, later the “Österreichische Gasglühlicht-AG”. In 1885 the pioneering invention of the gas mantle was made by Carl Auer Freiherr von Welsbach, which he and his colleague Ludwig Haitinger improved in 1891 by introducing the thorium-cerium mantle. His brother Max Haitinger is one of the founders of modern fluorescence microscopy and fluorescence labeling .

The prize was last awarded in 1954.

Award winners (selection)

• 1905 Friedrich Hasenöhrl
• 1908 Marian Smoluchowski
• 1914 Karl Przibram
• 1917 Felix Ehrenhaft
• 1919 Max Bamberger , Julius Zellner
• 1920 Erwin Schrödinger
• 1926 Georg Stetter
• 1928 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
• 1929 Fritz Feigel
• 1933 Elizabeth Rona and Berta Karlik
• 1936 Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher
• 1947 Berta Karlik