Wolfgang Paul Prize
The Wolfgang Paul Prize was named after Wolfgang Paul by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2001, 14 scientists were awarded this prize, each with prize money of up to 2.3 million euros from the federal government's future investment program. The winners should be able to work at a research institution in Germany free of bureaucratic constraints. At that time it was the most highly endowed German science award. It has not been forgiven again since then.
The namesake Wolfgang Paul was President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for ten years.
Award winners
2001 winners were:
- Hilmar Bading , Neurobiology, Cambridge
- Christiane Fellbaum , Linguistics, Princeton University
- Alex B. Gershman , Telecommunications, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Joachim Herz , neurobiologist, University of Texas, Dallas
- Ataç İmamoğlu , Optics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Josef A. Käs , Biophysics, University of Texas, Austin
- Alexei Khokhlov , Polymer Physics, Lomonosov University, Moscow
- Marc Levine , Mathematics, Northeastern University
- Ferenc Nagy , Biochemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Roberto Ragazzoni , Astronomy, National Astrophysics Institute, Padua
- Barry Smith , Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Alexander V. Sobolov , geochemist, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Michele Solimena , Cell Biology, Yale
- Andrew Webb , Biophysics, University of Illinois, Urbana