Heinrich Greinacher Prize
The Heinrich Greinacher Prize is a biannual award for scientific achievements by the Bern- based Professor Heinrich Greinacher Foundation.
The winners are selected by scientists from the University of Bern . The excellent scientific work is related to the scientific life work of the physicist Heinrich Greinacher . In addition, the award winners should be connected to the University of Bern. The prize money of 20,000 Swiss francs comes from the estate of Frieda Greinacher, b. Urben and Heinrich Greinacher.
Award winners
- 1998: Peter Jenni , "for his excellent contributions to the experimental investigation of the fundamental quark and gluon interactions in proton-antiproton collisions at high energies as well as for his initiative and leading role in the planning and construction of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC) of CERN "
- 1998: Jürg Beer , "for his imaginative and successful efforts to open up interesting areas of application of accelerator mass spectrography, as well as for his outstanding contributions to the investigation of solar variability and its effects on the earth's climate"
- 2002: David T. Young , "for his excellent contribution to the investigation of dynamic processes in the earth's magnetosphere as well as for his innovative work in the development and construction of new measuring instruments for the investigation of cosmic plasmas by means of space experiments"
- 2004: Martin Lüscher , "for his pioneering work in the field of lattice gauge theories"
- 2006: Martin Heimann , “for his leading role in developing an understanding of bio-geo-chemical cycles, especially the global carbon cycle, as well as for his experimental work on the detection of atmospheric trace substances for the use of the data obtained in this way in transport and Climate models "
- 2006: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber , "for his research on the physics of the heliosphere and the composition of the solar wind - today and in the past"
- 2008: Jürg Beringer , "for his innovative contributions to the instrumentation and data analysis of the ATLAS collider experiments at CERN and BaBar in Stanford"
- 2010: Andreas Nyffeler , "for his fundamental contribution to the theory of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon"
- 2012: Martin Wieser , "for his fundamental contribution to the development of instruments that can measure neutral atoms and their successful application in lunar research"
- 2014: Katrin Fuhrer and Marc Gonin , "for their work in the field of time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry, both for successful industrial application and for the scientific research that is possible with these instruments"
- 2016: Hugo Zbinden , "for his groundbreaking work in the field of quantum optics and quantum cryptography"
- 2018: Thomas H. Zurbuchen , "in recognition of his work in space science in the broadest sense"