Humboldt Prize
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The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars, and is currently valued at € 60.000 with the possibility of further support during the prize winner's life.[1][2] Up to one hundred such awards are granted each year. Nominations must be submitted by established academics in Germany.
The award is named after the late Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Past Winners in Biology include: Günter Blobel, Serge Daan, Daniel Gianola, Hendrikus Granzier, Bert Hölldobler, Sergej Nedospasov, Hans Othmer, Thomas Dyer Seeley, Rüdiger Wehner
Past Winners in Chemistry include: Julius Rebek, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock, John Bennett Fenn, Ahmed H. Zewail, John Anthony Pople, Robert F. Curl, Paul Josef Crutzen,Rudolph Marcus, Jean-Marie Lehn, Narayan Hosmane, Walter Gilbert and Keisuke Suzuki.
Past Winners in Economics include: Gerard Debreu
Past Winners in Management include: Timothy M. Devinney
Past Winners in Mathematics include: Dmitri Anosov, Spencer J. Bloch, Victor Guillemin, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Robert Langlands, Benoît Mandelbrot, Arnold Mandell, Grigory Margulis, John Milnor, Shayle R. Searle, Elias M. Stein, Anatoly Vershik, Ernest Borisovich Vinberg Shing-Tung Yau, and Marc Yor.
Past Winners in Medicine include: Fritz Albert Lipmann, Stanley B. Prusiner
Past Winners in Philosophy include: Panagiotis Kondylis, a Greek-German philosopher and historian of ideas, author of Die Aufklärung, Macht und Entscheidung,Jeff Malpas and several other influential studies.
Past Winners in Physics include: Roy J. Glauber, Theodor W. Hänsch, John L. Hall, Masatoshi Koshiba, Herbert Kroemer, Steven Chu, Valery Pokrovsky, Clifford G. Shull, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Durmus A. Demir, Hans Dehmelt, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Alfred Saupe, Arthur L. Schawlow, Holger Bech Nielsen , Jagdish Mehra, Julian Schwinger and Robert Hofstadter.
[edit] Notes
- ^ NeuroFocus Chief Science Advisor Wins Humboldt Prize. Fox Business. May 9, 2008. Accessed May 19, 2008
- ^ Humboldt Research Award. Humboldt Foundation. Accessed May 19, 2008
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