The Dannie Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities has been awarded biennially since 1961 for excellent recently published publications in a new research field of current interest. It is awarded to younger researchers in natural sciences or mathematics. The prize is named after Dannie Heineman, a Belgian-US philanthropist, engineer and businessman with German roots.

Prizewinners

1961 James Franck, biochemistry

1963 Edmund Hlawka, mathematics

1965 Georg Wittig, chemistry

1967 Martin Schwarzschild, astrophysics

1967 Gobind Khorana, biochemistry

1969 Brian Pippard, physics

1971 Neil Bartlett, chemistry

1973 Igor Schafarewitsch, mathematics

1975 Philip Warren Anderson, physics

1977 Albert Eschenmoser, chemistry

1979 Phillip Griffiths, mathematics

1981 Jacques Friedel, physics

1983 Gerd Faltings, mathematics

1986 Rudolf Thauer jr, biology

1987 Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz, physics

1989 Dieter Oesterhelt, biochemistry

1991 Jean-Pierre Demailly, mathematics

1993 Richard N. Zare, chemistry

1995 Donald M. Eigler, physics

1997 Regine Kahmann, biology

1999 Wolfgang Ketterle, physics

2001 Christopher C. Cummins, chemistry

2003 Michael Neuberger, biology

2005 Richard Taylor, mathematics

2007 Bertrand I. Halperin, physics

2009 Gerald F. Joyce, biology

2012 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, chemistry

2013 Emmanuel Jean Candès, mathematics

2015 Andrea Cavalleri, physics

2018 , chemistry

2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics

2021 Viola Priesemann, physics

See also

List of general science and technology awards

References

External links

Dannie Heineman Preis

Awards established in 1961

Science and technology awards

Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)