Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize
The Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize (1973 to 2001 Otto Klung Prize, 2001 to 2007 Otto Klung Weberbank Prize, 2007 to 2013 Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize) is a science prize that changes annually to outstanding younger German scientists in chemistry and physics who should not have passed the age of 40.
The winners are selected by permanent commissions at the Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Physics Department at the Free University of Berlin , supplemented by professors from other universities, with suggestions from specialist colleagues in Germany and abroad as well as scientific reports from top international researchers being included in the decision-making process. Self-applications will not be considered. The foundations decide on the selection proposal: the Otto Klung Foundation at the Free University of Berlin and the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation . The jointly declared aim of the foundations is to intensify the promotion of scientific excellence and to honor work that is trend-setting and enjoys international recognition. Five winners later received the Nobel Prize .
The first prize awarded in 1973 by the Otto Klung Foundation counts thanks to the cooperation with Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation since 2007 to the highest endowed privately financed science prizes in Germany. The award ceremony - for many years in November - is public.
Award winners
| chemistry | physics |
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| 2019: Titus Neupert ,
honored for his pioneering contributions to the theoretical prediction of new "topological" states of matter, especially the fractional Chern insulators and higher order topological insulators. |
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| 2018: Philipp Kukura ,
honored for his groundbreaking work in the field of development and application of imaging methods for the visualization and characterization of individual biomolecules. |
2017: Claus Ropers ,
honored for his groundbreaking work in the field of ultrafast electron microscopy and the nonlinear light-electron interaction on nanostructures. |
| 2016: Stephan A. Sieber ,
excellent for his synthesis of natural product-inspired substances to combat pathogenic bacteria and his fundamental studies on bacterial virulence. |
2015: Tobias J. Kippenberg ,
awarded for his groundbreaking work on the interaction of light with micro- and nano-mechanical systems. |
| 2014: Hans Jakob Wörner ,
honored for his research in the field of physical chemistry, in particular his pioneering work on electron movement in molecules on the subfemtosecond timescale. |
2013: Robert Huber ,
excellent for the development of the Fourier-Domain-Mode-Locked Laser and the improvements achieved with it in medical imaging by means of optical coherence tomography. |
| 2012: Tobias Ritter ,
honored for his achievements in the field of organometallic chemistry and the specific fluorination of biomedically relevant molecules. |
2011: Dieter Braun ,
honored for his work in the field of biophysics, in particular for the development of experiments on synthetic evolution and biophysical applications of thermophoresis. |
| 2010: Stefan Hecht ,
honored for his work in the field of functional organic nanostructures and photoswitchable devices. |
2009: Volker Springel ,
awarded for his work in numerical astrophysics, especially on the formation of galaxies and superheavy black holes. |
| 2008: Frank Neese ,
awarded for his work on the development of ORCA - a program package for the highly efficient calculation of the electronic structure of large molecules. |
2007: Martin Zwierlein ,
awarded for his work on the detection of superfluidity in ultracold Fermigases. |
| 2006: Ingo Krossing ,
excellent for his work in the synthesis and application of novel, very weakly coordinating anions. |
2005: Markus Greiner ,
awarded for his work on the quantum physics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattice potentials and on the Bose-Einstein condensation of molecular and fermionic quantum gases. |
| 2004: Peter H. Seeberger ,
honored for his work at the interface of synthetic organic chemistry and biology in the development of the automated solid-phase synthesis of complex carbohydrates. |
2003: Joachim P. Spatz ,
honored for his biophysical work on the adhesion and mechanics of cells. |
| 2002: Thomas Tuschl ,
honored for his work on the discovery and development of the RNA interference method. |
2001: Jan Hendrik Schön ,
Award revoked in 2002 |
| 2000: Matthias Drieß ,
excellent for his work in main group chemistry, especially phosphorus, silicon and sodium. |
1999: Roland Ketzmerick ,
awarded for his work on nonlinear dynamics in low-dimensional electronic systems. |
| 1998: Michael Famulok ,
awarded for his work on the structure and function of high-affinity ribonucleic acids. |
1997: Stephan Schiller ,
excellent for his work on quantum optics, in particular on quantum tomography (complete reconstruction of quantum states) and on particularly low-interference measurements when using strongly squeezed light (quantum nondemolition). |
| 1996: Carsten Bolm ,
honored for his work on metal-mediated enantioselective oxidation in organic synthesis. |
1995: Thomas Elsässer ,
awarded for his work on ultrafast dynamics in molecules and semiconductors. |
| 1994: Wolfgang Schnick ,
excellent for his work on syntheses and structure elucidation in the phosphorus-nitrogen system. |
1993: Karl Dieter Weiss ,
awarded for his work on new types of electronic phenomena in semiconductor components, in which the free movement of electrons is changed by artificial periodic structures ( Weiss oscillators ). |
| 1992: Stefan Jentsch ,
excellent for his work on ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation. |
1991: Hermann Nicolai ,
excellent for his work on quantum field theory. |
| 1990: Klaus Rademann ,
excellent for his work on the transition from isolated metal atoms to metallic solids. |
1989: Gisela Schütz ,
awarded for her work on the study of magnetism with circularly polarized synchrotron radiation. |
| 1988: Gerhard Bringmann ,
awarded for his work on the isolation, structure elucidation and synthesis of acetogenic isoquinoline alkaloids. |
1987: Johannes Georg Bednorz ,
honored for his work on the discovery of a new class of superconductors with previously unattained high transition temperatures. - Nobel Prize 1987 together with Karl Alex Müller |
| 1986: Hartmut Michel ,
excellent for his work on the crystallization and structure determination of the photosynthetic system I. - Nobel Prize 1988 together with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber |
1985: Horst Störmer ,
excellent for discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect. - Nobel Prize 1998 together with Daniel Chee Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin |
| 1984: Martin Quack ,
honored for his work on the interpretation of kinetic phenomena on the molecular level. |
1983: Gerd Binnig ,
honored for his contribution to the development of the scanning tunneling microscope. - Nobel Prize 1986 together with Heinrich Rohrer |
| 1982: Wolfgang A. Herrmann ,
awarded for his work on organometallic chemistry. |
1981: Gerhard Mack ,
excellent for his work on scale and conformance invariance as well as on lattice theory. |
| 1980: Helmut Schwarz ,
excellent for his work on physical organic chemistry, especially on chemistry in the mass spectrometer. |
1979: Theodor W. Hänsch ,
honored for his work on the construction of the first narrow-band tunable dye laser and the development of Doppler-free laser spectroscopy and the invention of laser cooling of atoms. - Nobel Prize 2005 together with Roy J. Glauber and John Lewis Hall |
From 1973 to 1978, the Otto Klung Prize , which was then awarded by the Otto Klung Foundation alone, was awarded to doctoral and post-doctoral candidates as a prize for young talent from the chemistry and physics departments of the Free University of Berlin :
Klaus-Peter Dinse (physics 1973), Wolf-Dietrich Hunnius and Rolf Minkwitz (chemistry 1974), Michael Grunze (chemistry 1975), Günther Kerker (physics 1976), Wolfgang Lubitz (chemistry 1977), Andreas Gaupp (physics 1978).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: When electrons give each other the edge , Der Tagesspiegel, September 28, 2019.
- ↑ Johannes Mairing: Weighing the Invisible , Der Tagesspiegel, October 6, 2018.
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: Troublemaker at the atomic level , Der Tagesspiegel, October 7, 2017.
- ^ Prize winners • Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize. In: klung-wilhelmy-wissenschafts-preis.de. Retrieved September 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: Weapon away, microbe! , Der Tagesspiegel, September 24, 2016.
- ^ Prize winners • Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize. In: klung-wilhelmy-wissenschafts-preis.de. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: Eiskalte Mechanik , Der Tagesspiegel, December 5, 2015.
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: Watching molecules at work , Der Tagesspiegel, October 4, 2014.
- ↑ Catarina Pietschmann: Beam of light on hold , Der Tagesspiegel, September 28, 2013.
- ^ Catarina Pietschmann: "Catalyst" for the medicine of tomorrow , Der Tagesspiegel, October 13, 2012.
- ↑ Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize 2011 goes to biophysics professor Dieter Braun at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ↑ Matthias Thiele: The ingredients of the original soup , Der Tagesspiegel, October 15, 2011.
- ↑ Matthias Manych: "Light" switch on a nano scale , Der Tagesspiegel, November 20, 2010.
- ↑ Aliki Nassouffis: The whole universe in the computer , Der Tagesspiegel, November 14, 2009.
- ↑ Dagny Lüdemann: In the microcosm of molecules , Der Tagesspiegel, November 12, 2008.
- ↑ Matthias Manych: Flowing Atoms caught ice cold , Der Tagesspiegel, November 17, 2007.