Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2012
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 eleven researchers, two women and nine men, as the winners of the 2012 Leibniz Prize. The award winners were selected by the Nominations Committee from among 131 nominees, and will each receive € 2.5 million in prize money. Of the eleven Leibniz Prizes awarded this year, five were awarded in the life sciences, three in the natural sciences, one in the engineering sciences, and two in the humanities and social sciences. The award ceremony will take place in Berlin on 27 February 2012.
Neurophysiology/Cellular Neuroscience, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin
Philosophy/Theory, University of Frankfurt am Main
Clinical Pharmacology/Innate Immunity, University Hospital Bonn (Hartmann) and Immunology/Nephrology, University Hospital Bonn (Kurts)
Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
Arabic Studies/Literature, Theatre, History of Ideas, University of Marburg
Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin
Oceanography, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) at University of Kiel
Theoretical Informatics/Algorithmics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Mathematics/Numerical Analysis, University of Technology, Munich
Experimental Physics, University of Stuttgart
