Scientist of the Year

The scientist of the year has been awarded annually in Austria since 1994 by the local club of education and science journalists to researchers who "have made a special contribution to the easily understandable communication of their work and thus also raised the image of Austrian research among the general public" . The club has over 150 members who represent all of Austria's major media.

Award winners

• 1994: Georg Wick , pathologist, age researcher, University of Innsbruck
• 1995: Stefan Karner , contemporary historian, University of Graz
• 1996: Anton Zeilinger , experimental physicist, University of Innsbruck
• 1997: Rudolf Rieder and Heinrich Wänke , Mars researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry , Mainz
• 1998: Herbert Budka , prion researcher, University of Vienna
• 1999: Christoph Badelt , social researcher, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• 2000: Hildegunde Piza-Katzer , plastic surgeon, University of Innsbruck
• 2001: Ulrich HJ Körtner , Protestant theologian, University of Vienna
• 2002: Renée Schroeder , microbiologist, University of Vienna
• 2003: Josef Penninger , geneticist, scientific director of IMBA , Vienna
• 2004: Rudolf Taschner , mathematician, Vienna University of Technology
• 2005: Helga Kromp-Kolb , meteorologist, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2006: Konrad Paul Liessmann , philosopher, University of Vienna
• 2007: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Germanist, University of Vienna
• 2008: Fatima Ferreira , allergy researcher, University of Salzburg
• 2009: Rudolf Grimm , experimental physicist, University of Innsbruck
• 2010: Kurt Kotrschal , behavioral biologist , University of Vienna, Konrad Lorenz Research Center , Wolf Science Center
• 2011: Sabine Ladstätter , archaeologist, director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
• 2012: Georg Grabherr , ecologist, Vice Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research , Innsbruck
• 2013: Verena Winiwarter , environmental historian, dean of the IFF at the University of Klagenfurt
• 2014: Wolfgang Baumjohann , space researcher, director of the Institute for Space Research , Graz
• 2015: Wolfgang Neubauer , archaeologist, University of Vienna and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archeology
• 2016: Alexandra Kautzky-Willer , gender doctor, Medical University of Vienna
• 2017: Stefan Thurner , complexity researcher, Medical University of Vienna
• 2018: Nuno Maulide , chemist, University of Vienna
• 2019: Barbara Stelzl-Marx , historian, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, Graz

See also

• Austrian of the year

Web links

• Website of the Club of Education and Science Journalists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ derStandard.at: Gender Medic is Scientist of the Year . Article of January 9, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2017.
2. ↑ Gender medicine specialist Kautzky-Willer is “Scientist of the Year” . Article of January 9, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2017.
3. ↑ orf.at: complexity researcher Stefan Thurner . Article dated January 8, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018.
4. ↑ Complexity researcher Stefan Thurner is "Scientist of the Year" . Article dated January 8, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018.
5. ↑ orf.at: chemist and pianist Nuno Maulide . Article from January 7, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2019.
6. ↑ orf.at: Historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx . Article from January 7, 2020, accessed on January 7, 2020.