Körber Prize for European Science
The Körber Prize for European Science is awarded annually to outstanding individual scientists working in Europe for promising research work by the Körber Foundation in Hamburg . With the prize money of 1 million euros (previously until 2018: 750,000 euros), the Körber Foundation is promoting research in the life and physical sciences .
history
In 1984, in collaboration with the President of the Max Planck Society , Reimar Lüst , the entrepreneur and founder Kurt A. Körber developed a prize which, in a divided Europe, was supposed to use science to overcome borders. Primarily cooperation projects of European research groups were honored. Since 2005, only individual people living and researching in Europe have been honored in order to keep top talent in Europe as a science location. The payment of the funding is also linked to the fact that the award winner does not leave Europe during this time.
Selection process
Two search committees made up of scientists look for suitable award-winning candidates from the fields of life sciences and physical sciences . Those who are shortlisted are asked to submit a proposal for a research project, which is then assessed by the Search Committee in two evaluation rounds. This work is supported by international experts. At the end of the day, up to five candidates are presented to the Board of Trustees , which decides on the award winners based on an overall review of expert assessment, publication performance and academic career. An application is not possible.
Prize money
All award winners receive a certificate and a sum of 750,000 euros. The respective award winner should research the research project over a three-year period with this prize money. The winner decides independently on the use of the research funds. Ten percent of the prize money is available to the winner for personal purposes.
Award
The Körber Prize for European Science is awarded annually in the Great Ballroom of the Hamburg City Hall in the presence of the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and 600 guests from science, business, politics and society.
Award winners
- 1985: Shock wave applications in medicine , Walter Brendel , Michael Delius , Georg Enders , Joseph Holl , Gustav Paumgartner , Tilman Sauerbruch
- 1985: Counter-pressure casting technology, Teodor Balevski , Rumen Batschvarov , Emil Momtschilov , Dragan Nenov , Rangel Zvetkov
- 1986: Retrovirus research ( AIDS ), Jean-Claude Gluckman , Sven Haahr , George Janossy , David Klatzmann , Luc Montagnier , Paul Racz
- 1987: Further development of electron holography , Karl-Heinz Herrmann , Friedrich Lenz , Hannes Lichte , Gottfried Möllenstedt
- 1987: Generation of ultra-low temperatures, Riitta Hari , Matti Krusius , Olli Lounasmaa , Martti Salomaa
- 1988: Expansion of the Hamburg pyrolysis process to destroy toxic waste materials, Alfons Buekens , Vasilij Dragalov , Walter Kaminsky , Hansjörg Sinn
- 1989: Active ingredients from plant cell cultures, Christian Brunold , Yury Y. Gleba , Lutz Nover , J. David Phillipson , Elmar Weiler , Meinhart H. Zenk
- 1990: Forecasting short-term climate changes, Lennart Bengtsson , Bert Bolin , Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann
- 1991: Detection and prevention of cancer with environmental chemicals, Lars Ehrenberg , Dietrich Henschler , Werner Lutz , Hans-Günter Neumann
- 1992: Propagation and transformation of contaminants in the groundwater, Philippe Behra , Wolfgang Kinzelbach , Ludwig Luckner , René Schwarzenbach , Laura Sigg
- 1993: Bionics of walking - technical implementation of biological knowledge, Felix Chernousko , François Clarac , Holk Cruse , Friedrich Pfeiffer
- 1994: Modern Plant Breeding - From Cell to Plant, Dénes Dudits , Dirk Inzé , Anne Marie Lambert , Horst Lörz
- 1995: Gene probes in environmental research and medicine, Rudolf Amann , Erik C. Böttger , Ulf B. Göbel , Bo Barker Jørgensen , Niels Peter Revsbech , Karl-Heinz Schleifer , Jiri Wanner
- 1996: Habitat tropical tree tops, Pierre Charles-Dominique , Antoine Cleef , Gerhard Gottsberger , Bert Hölldobler , Karl Eduard Linsenmair , Ulrich Lüttge
- 1996: Computer-controlled design of materials, Michael Ashby , Yves Bréchet , Michel Rappaz
- 1997: Mouse mutants as models for clinical research, Pawel Kisielow, Klaus Rajewsky , Harald von Boehmer
- 1998: Magnetic resonance tomography with helium-3 - New ways in lung diagnostics, Werner Heil , Michèle Leduc , Ernst-Wilhelm Otten , Manfred Thelen
- 1998: Electronic micronases for more safety in the workplace, Henry Baltes , Wolfgang Göpel , Massimo Rudan
- 1999: High-flying platforms for telecommunications, Bernd Kröplin , Per Lindstrand , John Adrian Pyle , Michael André Rehmet
- 2000: Perception of shape in technology with knowledge from nature, Rodney Douglas , Amiram Grinvald , Randolf Menzel , Wolf Singer , Christoph von der Malsburg
- 2001: Optimized crops thanks to genetic engineering , Wolf-Bernd Frommer , Rainer Hedrich , Enrico Martinoia , Dale Sanders , Norbert Sauer
- 2002: Scarless wound healing through Tissue Engineering , Mark WJ Ferguson , Jeffrey A. Hubbell , Cay M. Kielty , Björn Stark , Michael G. Walker
- 2003: A molecule-sized motor powered by light, Ben Feringa , Martin Möller , Justin E. Molloy , Niek F. van Hulst
- 2004: Therapies for a new group of hereditary diseases, Markus Aebi , Thierry Hennet , Jaak Jaeken , Ludwig Lehle , Gert Matthijs , Kurt von Figura
- 2005: With light on new paths, Philip Russell
- 2006: Chaperones of protein folding in biotechnology and medicine, Franz-Ulrich Hartl
- 2007: Automatic synthesis of carbohydrate vaccines against tropical diseases , Peter Seeberger
- 2008: Drugs against Cancer and Aging, Maria Blasco
- 2009: Graphene , the thinnest material in the universe, Andre Geim
- 2010: Auxin : The key to new crops, Jiří Friml
- 2011: STED microscopy , Stefan Hell
- 2012: Proteomics , Matthias Mann
- 2013: For research at the interface between quantum optics and solid state physics, especially Optical Lattice , Immanuel Bloch
- 2014: Brain research: May-Britt and Edvard Moser
- 2015: Materials Science: Nicola Spaldin for Multiferroics
- 2016: Hans Clevers for adult stem cells
- 2017: Karsten Danzmann for high-precision laser technology
- 2018: Svante Pääbo , because he “revolutionized our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern humans”
- 2019: Bernhard Schölkopf for the development of mathematical processes to significantly improve Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 2020: Botond Roska for his research on vision and the retina.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artificial Intelligence Körber Prize 2019 goes to AI pioneer , forschung-und-lehre.de, June 26, 2019
- ↑ Körber Foundation: Excellent Minds. 25 years of scientific peak 2009, p. 4 ff.
- ↑ Andrea Bayerlein: Gravity signals from the depths of space. Körber Foundation, press release from May 31, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Körber Prize 2018 , accessed on June 21, 2018.