This article is about the prize awarded by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. For other prizes named after Dannie Heineman, see
Dannie Heineman Prize.
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.[1]
- 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 André Gröschel [de], chemistry
- 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics
- 2021 Viola Priesemann,[2] physics