Hans Sigrist Prize
The Hans Sigrist Prize is an award from the University of Bern , which has been awarded annually since 1994 as part of the Dies academicus there, usually in December. The prize is endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded by the Hans Sigrist Foundation , which comes from the estate of the Swiss businessman Hans Sigrist (1918–1982).
The Hans Sigrist Prize is awarded in a different area each year. Proposals come from the teaching staff of the University of Bern and are evaluated by a prize committee with the help of external experts. The award winner himself should be in the middle of his career, so that important contributions can still be expected from him. In this respect, the award is seen less as an award than as a promotion.
Award winners
Two of the laureates later won a Nobel Prize . In 1997 two prizes were awarded, in 2007 and 2010 none.
- 1994: H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize 2002)
- 1995: Joseph P. Newhouse
- 1996: František Šmahel
- 1997: Jack W. Szostak (Nobel Prize 2009), Gerald F. Joyce
- 1998: Michel Orrit
- 1999: Joan W. Scott
- 2000: Elsa Tamez
- 2001: Jan Johansson
- 2002: Jorge Galán
- 2003: Emilio Gentile
- 2004: Christopher Pollitt
- 2005: Stephen Elledge
- 2006: David M. Richardson
- 2008: Andreas Feldtkeller
- 2009: Patrik Vuilleumier
- 2011: Nicola Lacey
- 2012: Stephen Boppart
- 2013: Yoshiki Sasai
- 2014: Jennifer Klein
- 2015: Luciano Marraffini
- 2016: Gabriele Hegerl
- 2017: Heleen Murre-van den Berg
- 2018: Marina von Keyserlingk
- 2019: Ignas Snellen
Web links
- The Hans Sigrist Prize and Hans Sigrist Prize Winners (English) at the University of Bern (unibe.ch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Sigrist Symposium 2019: Fascination Exoplanet Research. In: unibe.ch. University of Bern, accessed on December 2, 2019 .