Humboldt Research Award
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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
- Biology
- Günter Blobel, Serge Daan, Daniel Gianola, Hendrikus Granzier, Dan Graur, Bert Hölldobler, Sergej Nedospasov, Hans Othmer, Thomas Dyer Seeley, Günter P. Wagner, Rüdiger Wehner and Eckard Wimmer.
- Chemistry
- Anthony J. Arduengo III, Paul Josef Crutzen, Robert F. Curl, John Bennett Fenn, Walter Gilbert, Robert H. Grubbs, Narayan Hosmane, Jean-Marie Lehn, Rudolph Marcus, James Cullen Martin, Debashis Mukherjee, John Anthony Pople, Julius Rebek, Richard R. Schrock, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Oktay Sinanoğlu, Kenji Ohmori, Thomas Zemb, Yoshitaka Tanimura, and Ahmed H. Zewail.
- Computer Science
- Michael Fellows, Leonid Levin, Manindra Agrawal, Ken Forbus[3]
- Economics
- Gérard Debreu, Hal Varian, Ronald Shephard
- Linguistics
- Matthew S. Dryer, Jaklin Kornfilt
- Management
- Timothy M. Devinney
- Mathematics
Dmitri Anosov, Spencer J. Bloch, Alexandre Eremenko, Dima Grigoriev, Victor Guillemin, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Robert Langlands, Benoît Mandelbrot, Arnold Mandell, Grigory Margulis, Vladimir Maz'ya, Curtis T. McMullen, Alexander Merkurjev, John Milnor, Teimuraz Pirashvili, Shayle R. Searle, Elias M. Stein, Anatoly Vershik, Ernest Borisovich Vinberg, Shing-Tung Yau, Marc Yor, and Andrei Zelevinsky.
- Medicine
- Fritz Albert Lipmann, Stanley B. Prusiner
- Philosophy
- Colin Allen, Panagiotis Kondylis, Michael Friedman, Jeff Malpas, John Perry, R. Jay Wallace.
- Physics
Girish Agarwal, Wolfgang Bauer, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Ali Chamseddine, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Steven Chu, Predrag Cvitanović, Donald D. Clayton, Hans Dehmelt, Durmus A. Demir, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Roy J. Glauber, Chris Greene, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch, Robert Hofstadter, John W. Harris, Kyozi Kawasaki, Jihn E. Kim, Masatoshi Koshiba, Herbert Kroemer, Jagdish Mehra, Rabindra Mohapatra, Pran Nath, Holger Bech Nielsen, Hirosi Ooguri, Valery Pokrovsky, Alfred Saupe, Arthur L. Schawlow, Julian Schwinger, Clifford G. Shull, Ching W. Tang, Anthony William Thomas, Gary Westfall, Paul Wiegmann, M. Suhail Zubairy, and Gia Dvali
See also
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
- ^ http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/article_1012.html
External links
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