Max Delbruck Prize
The Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics is an award in biophysics initially awarded annually and finally every two years by the American Physical Society . It has been named after Max Delbrück since 2006 (previously: Biological Physics Prize ) and endowed with 10,000 US dollars. It was donated in 1981.
Four of the 27 award winners (as of 2017) later received a Nobel Prize , one before.
Award winners
- 1982: George Feher , Roderick Clayton
- 1983: Paul Christian Lauterbur ( Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003)
- 1984: Howard Berg and Edward Mills Purcell ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1952)
- 1985: John Hopfield
- 1986: Hartmut Michel , Johann Deisenhofer (both received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988)
- 1987: Britton Chance
- 1991: Watt Webb
- 1992: Hans Frauenfelder
- 1994: Robert Pearlstein , Robert Knox
- 1996: Seiji Ogawa
- 1998: Rangaswamy Srinivasan
- 2000: Paul Hansma
- 2002: Carlos Bustamante
- 2004: Peter Wolynes
- 2006: Alfred Guillou Redfield
- 2008: Steven Block
- 2010: Eric Betzig ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014, but rejected the Delbruck Prize), Xiaowei Zhuang
- 2012: William A. Eaton
- 2014: Robert H. Austin
- 2015: Stanislas Leibler
- 2016: Stephen R. Quake
- 2017: Alan Perelson
- 2018: William S. Bialek
- 2019: Jose Nelson Onuchic , Ken A. Dill
- 2020: James J. Collins