Karl Arnold Prize
The Karl Arnold Prize is a German science award .
background
The Karl Arnold Prize is awarded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , until 2000 under the name Academy Prize . The award is intended to honor “the outstanding research work of a young scientist”.
The award was financed by the Society of Friends and Patrons of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences until 1998 and has been supported by the Foundation for the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 1999. It is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2019) and is awarded annually alternately by one of the four classes of the academy (humanities, natural sciences and medicine, engineering and economics, arts). It is named after Karl Arnold , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956.
Award winners
- 2019 Juana von Stein (Romance studies, University of Cologne)
- 2018 Ben J. Riepe (choreographer, Düsseldorf)
- 2017 Steffen Freitag (University of Bochum)
- 2016 Shijulal Nelson-Sathi (bioinformatician)
- 2015 Susanne Paulus (ancient orientalist)
- 2014 Inger-Maria Mahlke (writer)
- 2013 Nils Pohl (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Technology FHR in Wachtberg)
- 2012 Alex Greilich (Technical University Dortmund)
- 2011 Matthias Wille (Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster)
- 2010 Paloma Varga Weisz (visual artist), Anno Schreier (composer)
- 2009 Paolo Bientinesi , Kai Olaf Leonhard (both RWTH Aachen University)
- 2008 Martin Möller (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn)
- 2007 Jörg Fündling , Tobias Weller (both University of Bonn)
- 2006 Patrick Schmitz (University of Cologne)
- 2005 Frank G. Neese (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
- 2004 Thomas Brockmann (University of Bayreuth)
- 2003 Thomas Musch (Ruhr University Bochum)
- 2002 Carsten Schmuck (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- 2001 Volker Henning Drecoll (University of Tübingen), Burkhard Niederhoff (Ruhr University Bochum)
- 2000 Martin Oberlack (TU Darmstadt)
- 1999 Günter Distelrath (University of Bonn), Björn R. Tammen (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Music Research)
- 1998 Csaba Koncz (Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research, Cologne)
- 1997 Mechthild Dreyer (University of Mainz), Manuel Gervink (University of Music Dresden)
- 1996 Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich)
- 1995 Cornelia Römer (University of Vienna), Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen)
- 1994 Stefan Blügel (FZ Jülich)
- 1993 Wassilios Klein (University of Bonn), Abbo Junker (LMU Munich)
- 1992 Klaus Gerwert (Ruhr University Bochum)
- 1991 Ulrich von Hehl (University of Leipzig), Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (University of Cologne)
- 1990 Claus Michael Schneider (FZ Jülich), Anton Kummert (University of Wuppertal)