Humboldt Prize


The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany. The prize is currently valued at €60,000 with the possibility of further support during the prize winner's life. 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

Serge Daan,
Daniel Gianola,
Hendrikus Granzier,
Dan Graur,
Bert Hölldobler,
Sergej Nedospasov,
Hans Othmer,
John M. Opitz,
Burkhard Rost,
Thomas Dyer Seeley,
Günter P. Wagner,
Rüdiger Wehner,
Eckard Wimmer.

Chemistry

Sukbok Chang,
Paul Josef Crutzen,
Robert F. Curl,
Gautam R. Desiraju,
Kuiling Ding,
John Bennett Fenn,
Alice P. Gast,
Walter Gilbert,
Robert H. Grubbs,
Narayan Hosmane,
Jean-Marie Lehn,
Yuri Lvov,
Rudolph Marcus,
James Cullen Martin,
Debashis Mukherjee,
Kenji Ohmori,
Geoffrey Ozin,
John Anthony Pople,
Alessandro Piccolo,
Ronald T. Raines,
Roger Reed
Julius Rebek,
Richard R. Schrock,
Sason Shaik,
Peter Schwerdtfeger,
Oktay Sinanoğlu,
Yoshitaka Tanimura,
Matthias Tschöp,
Thomas Zemb,
Ahmed H. Zewail.

Computer Science

Patrick Cousot,
Ken Forbus,
Michael Fellows,
Michael Franz,
Johannes Gehrke,
Jonathan Katz,
Leonid Levin,
Toby Walsh, Bakh Khoussainov

Economics

, Gérard Debreu, Francis X. Diebold, Jean-Michel Grandmont, Ronald Shephard, Hal Varian.

Engineering

, Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, Walter G. Chapman, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Andrew Jenike, Phoon Kok Kwang, Lanny D. Schmidt, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, Mustafa Okyay Kaynak.

History

Andreas W. Daum, Harry Liebersohn, Charles S. Maier, James J. Sheehan

Linguistics

, Jaklin Kornfilt, Paul Kiparsky, Peter Austin

Management

Mathematics

Paul Balmer,
Ole Barndorff-Nielsen,
Spencer J. Bloch,
Dinh Tien-Cuong,
Rod Downey,
Alexandre Eremenko,
Christian Genest,
Dima Grigoriev,
Victor Guillemin,
Uffe Haagerup,
Harald Andrés Helfgott,
Toshiyuki Kobayashi,
Alexander Komech,
Robert Langlands,
Roberto Longo,
Benoît Mandelbrot,
Arnold Mandell,
Grigory Margulis,
Vladimir Maz'ya,
Trevor McDougall,
Curtis T. McMullen,
Alexander Merkurjev,
John Milnor,
Teimuraz Pirashvili,
Gopal Prasad,
Svetlozar Rachev,
Shayle R. Searle,
Elias M. Stein,
Anatoly Vershik,
Ernest Borisovich Vinberg,
Raymond O. Wells, Jr.,
Shing-Tung Yau,
Marc Yor,
Andrei Zelevinsky.

Medicine

Stanley B. Prusiner

Meteorology

Organizational Psychology

Philosophy

Michael Friedman,
Peter J. Graham,
Panagiotis Kondylis,
Stephan Hartmann,
Hannes Leitgeb,
Jeff Malpas,
John Perry,
R. Jay Wallace.

Physics

Riccardo Barbieri,
Wolfgang Bauer,
Nihat Berker,
Nicolaas Bloembergen,
Robert W. Boyd,
Victor A. Brumberg,
Ali Chamseddine,
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,
Steven Chu,
Predrag Cvitanović,
Donald D. Clayton,
Hans Dehmelt,
Durmus A. Demir,
Tomasz Dietl,
Alexei L. Efros,
Yuri Estrin,
Andrea Ferrara,
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes,
Roy J. Glauber,
Chris Greene,
Yuval Grossman,
Willy Haeberli,
John L. Hall,
Theodor W. Hänsch,
Robert Hofstadter,
John W. Harris,
Kyozi Kawasaki,
Jihn E. Kim,
Dmitri Kharzeev,
Masatoshi Koshiba,
Dirk Kreimer,
Herbert Kroemer,
Jay H. Lieske,
Rodney Loudon,
Andreas Mandelis,
M. Brian Maple,
Jagdish Mehra,
Eugen Merzbacher,
Curt Michel,
Rabindra Mohapatra,
Pran Nath,
Holger Bech Nielsen,
Hirosi Ooguri,
Valery Pokrovsky,
Augusto Sagnotti,
Alfred Saupe,
Arthur L. Schawlow,
Julian Schwinger,
Ivan A. Sellin,
Clifford G. Shull,
Costas Soukoulis,
Sauro Succi,
Ching W. Tang,
Anthony William Thomas,
José W. F. Valle,
Gary A. Wegner,
Gary Westfall,
Paul Wiegmann,
Maw-Kuen Wu,
Stefano Zapperi,
M. Suhail Zubairy,
Victor I. Klimov,
and
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