Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2010
The winners of Germany's most prestigious research prize have been officially announced. At its meeting in Bonn today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) named ten researchers, four women and six men, as the winners of the 2011 Leibniz Prize. The award winners were selected by the Nominations Committee from among 152 nominees, and will each receive € 2.5 million in prize money. Of the ten Leibniz Prizes awarded this year, four were awarded in the life sciences, three in the natural sciences, two in the engineering sciences, and one in the humanities and social sciences. The award ceremony will take place in Berlin on 16 March 2011.
Neuroendocrinology/Sleep Research, University of Lübeck
Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
Economics, University of Frankfurt am Main
Paediatrics/Paediatric Oncology, Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn
Modern and Recent History, University of Konstanz
Biophysics, Dresden University of Technology
Primate Cognitive Neuroscience, German Primate Centre, Göttingen
Image Processing/Computer Science, Saarland University
