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, chemistry
 * 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics
 * 2021 Viola Priesemann, physics