Science Prize: Research between Basics and Applications
The Science Prize: Research between Fundamentals and Applications by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft is a science prize awarded every two years for research that combines principles and application in a special way. It is endowed with 50,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1998 Gregor Morfill (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching)
- 1999 Peter Gruss , Herbert Jäckle (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen)
- 2000 Joseph Straus (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich)
- 2001 Ferdi Schüth (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim / Ruhr)
- 2002 Klaus Müllen (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz)
- 2004 Martin Jansen (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart)
- 2005 Eduard Arzt , Huajian Gao and Stanislav Gorb (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart), Ralph Spolenak (ETH Zurich)
- 2007 Fritz W. Scharpf (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne)
- 2009 Ernst Bamberg (Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main)
- 2011 Dieter Oesterhelt (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried)
- 2013 Jens Frahm (Biomedical NMR Research GmbH at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)
- 2015 Lothar Willmitzer (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm), Metabolomics , Plant Physiology and Genetics
- 2017 Peter Seeberger (Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces), automated synthesis of sugars with application to vaccines, for example
- 2019 Wolfgang Baumeister (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry), cryo-electron tomography