Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
portrait of Christoph Bernhard Francke , around 1700; Duke Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , actually a sponsorship prize for German scientists in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Program of the German Research Foundation , or Leibniz Prize for short , is named after the scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). It has been awarded annually since 1986 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to scientists working in Germany from various fields of science.

The prize is endowed with up to 2.5 million euros (1.55 million euros until 2006) per winner. The prize money can be used for research work for up to seven years (five years up to 2006) according to the winners' ideas without any bureaucratic effort. The award was initiated by the President of the German Research Foundation, Eugen Seibold .

The intention behind the award is to

"To improve the working conditions of outstanding top researchers and to expand their research opportunities, to relieve them of administrative workload and to make it easier for them to employ particularly qualified young scientists."

- German Research Foundation

Up to and including 2022, a total of 398 Leibniz Prizes, some of which were shared, had been awarded. The natural sciences were funded 127 times , the life sciences 115 times , the social and human sciences 95 times and the engineering sciences 61 times . 425 nominees received the award, including 358 scientists and 67 women scientists.

In order to promote the idea of open access , the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek activated a Leibniz Publik portal on behalf of the German Research Foundation in September 2011 with full texts (books and articles) by many award winners that are freely accessible online.

Award winners

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Award ceremony on March 15, 2017 in Berlin:

Award ceremony on July 4, 2017 in Halle:

The award to Britta Nestler was suspended in March after the DFG had received an anonymous letter five days before the planned award date alleging the researcher's scientific misconduct in 30 cases over a period of 14 years. When the DFG checked the allegations, Nestler was completely exonerated and the prize was subsequently handed over at the DFG annual meeting in Halle (Saale). The events led to a discussion about how the DFG dealt with anonymous defamation.

2018:

  • Jens Beckert , Sociology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
  • Alessandra Buonanno , Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam
  • Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln , Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt / Main
  • Veit Hornung , Immunology, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
    Eicke Latz , Immunology, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • Heike Paul , American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Erika L. Pearce , Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg / Breisgau
  • Claus Ropers , Experimental Solid State Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Oliver G. Schmidt , Materials Science, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden and Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • Bernhard Schölkopf , Machine Learning, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
  • László Székelyhidi , Applied Mathematics, University of Leipzig

2019:

  • Sami Haddadin , Robotics, Technical University of Munich
  • Rupert Huber , Experimental Physics, University of Regensburg
  • Andreas Reckwitz , Sociology, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt / Oder
  • Hans-Reimer Rodewald , Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
  • Melina Schuh , Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), Göttingen
  • Brenda Schulman , Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB), Martinsried
  • Ayelet Shachar , Law and Political Science, Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies, Göttingen
  • Michèle Tertilt , Economics, University of Mannheim
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Experimental Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Matthias Wessling , Chemical Process Engineering, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI), Aachen

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notice

In addition to this Leibniz Prize from the DFG, there is also the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the DFG for young scientists.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, accessed on December 9, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Funding at a glance: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft eV, accessed on December 9, 2021 (last update: October 4, 2021).
  3. ↑ a b Leibniz Prizes 2022: DFG honors five female and five female scientists. Press release. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft eV, December 9, 2021, accessed on December 9, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Shared Price, see dfg.de .
  5. ↑ Leibniz Prizes 2017: DFG honors three female and seven female scientists. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ DFG press release , accessed on July 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda: History of a reputation damage. In sueddeutsche.de from August 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Marco Finetti: Leibniz Prizes 2018: DFG honors four female and seven female scientists. German Research Foundation (DFG), press release from December 14, 2017 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on December 14, 2017.