Wittgenstein Prize

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The Wittgenstein Prize is the prize money to highly doped to 1.5 million euros prize of the Republic of Austria in the field of science, named after the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein .

The prize was launched in 1996 by the then Science Minister Rudolf Scholten and the physicist Arnold Schmidt and is usually advertised once a year by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research and awarded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research .

Criteria and terms of award

Only scientists nominated by those eligible to make proposals are eligible for the Wittgenstein Prize. There are no quota restrictions on individual scientific disciplines. Only researchers who work in Austria, but whose origin and nationality are of any kind, can be nominated. The prize is awarded once a year, and in some years twice.

The prize is endowed with up to 1.5 million euros. The award winner can spend the amount relatively freely for research purposes as a grant over the course of five (extendable to six) years.

The prize is closely based on the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded in Germany , but the winner is selected by an independent jury. This consists of 14 international scientists who come from renowned research facilities and institutes - for example Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Together with the Wittgenstein Prize, the same jury also awards the Start Prize every year .

Gottfried and Vera Weiss Prize

Since 2014 a year, alternately in the fields of meteorology and anesthesia of the Dr. Gottfried and Dr. Vera Weiss Science Foundation financed the Weiss Prize. The foundation goes back to the meteorologist Gottfried Weiss (1926–2000) and his wife, the anesthetist Vera Weiss (1926–2013). Prize winners were:

Award winners

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Web links

Commons : Wittgenstein Award Ceremony 2014  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Innsbruck cave researcher receives Weiss Prize 2018 . Article dated March 27, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ 1st award ceremony - Meteorology to Dr. Kay HELFRICHT . Article dated February 17, 2017, accessed March 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ orf.at - "Austro Nobel Prize" to Byzantinist Rapp . Article dated June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ 2018 Weiss Prize for research in ice caves goes to Christoph Spötl . Article dated March 28, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ 2nd Prize Winner: Anesthesia: Dr. Klaus Ulrich KLEIN: Weiss Science Foundation . Article from January 25, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ Alexander Gohm received the Weiss Prize . Article from January 23, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ 3rd Prize Winner - Meteorology - Dr. Alexander GOHM - Weiss Science Foundation . Article from January 25, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2019.
  8. ↑ 4th award ceremony to Dr. Kai Kummer - Weiss Science Foundation . Article dated March 28, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  9. ^ FWF Project Finder. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Computer scientist Monika Henzinger named Austria's Wittgenstein Prize winner 2021. In: fwf.ac.at. May 22, 2021, accessed May 22, 2021 .
  11. ^ Mathematician Adrian Constantin named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winner. In: fwf.ac.at. Science Fund FWF, June 17, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2020 .
  12. ↑ orf.at: Wittgenstein Prize to historians and microbiologists . Article dated June 17, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ Philipp Ther and Michael Wagner named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winners . OTS notification dated June 17, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ Wittgenstein Prizes 2018 to the computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner and to the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek . OTS notification dated June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.