Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)
# Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)

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 André Gröschel [de], chemistry
* 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics
* 2021 Viola Priesemann, physics
