Hertha Sponer Prize
The Hertha Sponer Prize is a scientific award from the German Physical Society . It has been awarded annually to a female scientist since 2002 for outstanding scientific work in the field of physics. The prize is primarily intended to encourage younger women scientists through public awards and thus attract more women to physics. The prize consists of a certificate and prize money of € 3,000.
The award is named after the German physicist Hertha Sponer (1895–1968), who made important contributions to molecular physics and spectroscopy .
Prize winners
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- 2002: Karina Morgenstern ( Free University Berlin ) for dynamic scanning tunnel microscope examinations on nanostructures.
- 2003: Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben ( Universitätssternwarte Göttingen ) for the investigation of the evolution of galaxies in cosmological time scales, especially taking into account their interaction.
- 2004: Myrjam Winning ( RWTH Aachen ) for contributions to metallurgy and materials science, in particular X-ray structure studies of grain boundaries.
- 2005: Elena Vedmedenko ( University of Hamburg ) for outstanding work on the magnetism of nanostructures with applications in spintronics .
- 2006: Ekaterina Shamonina ( University of Osnabrück ) for outstanding contributions to electromagnetic metamaterials.
- 2007: Christine Silberhorn ( University of Erlangen-Nürnberg ), work on quantum communication with continuous variables.
- 2008: Sylvie Roke ( Max Planck Institute for Metals Research Stuttgart), experimental and theoretical work on nonlinear optical scattering on particle surfaces
- 2009: Corinna Kollath ( École polytechnique , Paris), theoretical investigations of non-equilibrium states of ultra-cold bosonic and fermionic atomic gases
- 2010: Liu Na ( University of Stuttgart ), for pioneering contributions to the characterization and manufacture of three-dimensional metal nanostructures .
- 2011: Martina Hentschel ( Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden) for the theoretical investigation of mesoscopic electronic and optical systems, especially optical microcavities and the radiation characteristics of microlasers, which could then be confirmed experimentally.
- 2012: Katharina Franke ( FU Berlin ) for her groundbreaking work on the interplay of magnetic molecules with superconductors on the nano- and mesoscopic scale .
- 2013: Kerstin Tackmann ( DESY )
- 2014: Anne Schukraft ( RWTH Aachen University )
- 2015: Ilaria Zardo ( Eindhoven University of Technology )
- 2016 not awarded
- 2017: Isabelle Staude ( Friedrich Schiller University Jena )
- 2018: Karin Everschor-Sitte ( University of Mainz )
- 2019: Adriana Pálffy-Buß ( Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics )
- 2020: Priscilla Pani ( DESY )