Physics Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
The Physics Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen is since 1957 by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen awarded for outstanding work in physics. There are also corresponding prizes for chemistry and biology.
As a rule, the researchers should work in Germany or be German citizens, they must not be over the age of 40 and not yet hold a professorship for life or a corresponding other position. In addition, they must work outside of Göttingen and are not allowed to be students of members of the Göttingen Academy. The candidates are proposed by the respective Academy Award Committees.
Award winners
Partly with laudatory speech.
- 1957 Herwig Schopper
- 1958 Karl-Heinz Böhm (astronomer)
- 1959 Gerhart Lüders
- 1960 not awarded
- 1961 Robert Doll , Martin Näbauer (Herrsching / Ammersee, Commission for Low Temperature Research of the Bavarian AdW), work on river quantization
- 1962 S. Wilking (TH Karlsruhe)
- 1963 no award
- 1964 Jan Peter Toennies , HG Bennewitz (University of Bonn)
- 1965 Herbert Weiss (Siemens Erlangen)
- 1966 Jörg Wittig (TH Karlsruhe)
- 1967 Uwe Eßmann , Hermann Träuble (MPI Metal Research Stuttgart)
- 1968 Johannes Zittartz , Erwin Müller-Hartmann (University of Cologne)
- 1969 not awarded
- 1970 Klaus Hasselmann (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
- 1971 Klaus Pohlmeyer
- 1972 Helmut Kinder (KFA Jülich)
- not awarded, but two winners in chemistry
- 1974 Peter H. Dederichs (Research Center Jülich)
- 1975 Peter Wölfle (Technical University of Munich)
- 1976 Helmut Föll (MPI Metal Research Stuttgart), Bernd Kolbesen (Siemens, Munich)
- 1977 Wolfgang Hillebrandt (TH Darmstadt)
- 1978 Gerd Bergmann (Research Center Jülich)
- 1979 Detlev Buchholz (University of Hamburg)
- 1980 Andreas Eichler (TU Braunschweig)
- 1982 Uwe Trinks (Technical University of Munich)
- 1983 Rudolf Marx (University of Duisburg)
- 1984 Stefan Thomae (Research Center Jülich)
- 1985 Manfred Fähnle (MPI Metal Research Stuttgart)
- 1986 Peter Schneider (physicist) (JILA Boulder)
- 1987 Klaus Fredenhagen (University of Hamburg)
- 1988 Christian Radehaus (University of Münster)
- 1989 not awarded
- 1990 Helmut Höche (Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy in Halle)
- 1991 Walter Metzner (La Sapienza, Rome)
- 1992 Eberhard Burkel (Munich)
- 1993 Rolf Möller (physicist) (Constance)
- 1994 Bruno Eckhardt (Oldenburg)
- 1995 Hans-Werner Wiesbrock (FU Berlin)
- 1996 Holger Frahm (Hanover)
- 1997 Phlipp Ebert (Research Center Jülich)
- 1998 Reinhold Egger (Freiburg)
- 1999 Volker Schomerus (University of Hamburg) for his work on expanding the concept of symmetry in quantum physics
- 2001 Ulli Köster (CERN) for the development of resonance laser ion sources for the production of radioactive ion beams.
- 2002 Achim Rosch (Karlsruhe) for his work "Conductivity of a clean one-dimensional wire" and "Interplay of disorder and spin fluctuations in the resistivity near a quantum critical point"
- 2003 Norbert Pietralla (University of Cologne) for his studies of mixed symmetry states using the nuclear resonance fluorescence method
- 2004 Pepijn WH Pinkse (MPI Quantenoptik , Garching) for his work in the field of cold molecular gases and the quantum electrodynamics of individual atoms in optical resonators
- 2005 Hanno Sahlmann (Spinoza Institute Utrecht) for his important contributions to loop quantum gravity.
- 2006 Mathias Kläui (University of Konstanz) for studies on "Magnetic transports - switching processes based on domain wall propagation"
- 2007 Thomas Pfohl (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen), for his important scientific work on the observation and manipulation of macromolecules in shear flow on the micrometer scale
- 2008 André Schirmeisen (University of Münster) for his important scientific work in the field of surface physics / nanotribology
- 2009 Marek Kowalski (Berlin), for work in the field of neutrino emission and observation from supernovae.
- 2010 Corinna Kollatz (Palaiseau Cedex) for work on the dynamics of quantum mechanical many-body systems far from equilibrium.
- 2011 Eva Maria Weig (Munich) for work on the mechanics of nanosystems at the border between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.
- 2014 Andy Thomas (Bielefeld) for his work in which he uses the memristive properties of tunnel contacts to create artificial neural structures.
- 2016 Christoph Karrasch (FU Berlin), for his innovative contributions to the solution of quantum mechanical many-body problems, in particular for his groundbreaking expansion of the density matrix renormalization group, which made the application of this method at finite temperatures possible. Else Starkenburg (Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam) for outstanding work in the field of galactic archeology, with which she makes a significant contribution to research into the formation of our Milky Way.