Otto Warburg Medal

The Otto Warburg Medal is awarded annually by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (German: Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie or GBM) to honour scientists who have contributed important work in the field of biological chemistry. It is named after Otto Warburg, a renowned German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate. It was first awarded on his 80th birthday on 8 October 1963.

Up to 2013, nine Warburg Medal recipients have also been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Medallists
Source: GBM • 1963 – Feodor Lynen

• 1965 – Kurt Mothes

• 1968 – Michael Sela

• 1969 – Hans Adolf Krebs & Carl Martius

• 1972 – Ernst Klenk

• 1973 – Hans Leo Kornberg

• 1974 – Theodor Bücher

• 1975 – Helmut Holzer

• 1976 – Heinz-Günter Wittmann

• 1977 – Robert Huber

• 1978 – Wilhelm Stoffel

• 1979 – Lothar Jaenicke

• 1980 – Charles Weissmann

• 1981 – Martin Klingenberg

• 1982 – Rudolf Rott (virologist)

• 1983 – Günter Blobel

• 1984 – Rudolf K. Thauer

• 1985 – Peter Starlinger

• 1986 – Julius Adler

• 1987 – Shosaku Numa

• 1988 – Gottfried Schatz

• 1989 – Hans Georg Zachau

• 1990 – Horst Tobias Witt

• 1991 – Dieter Oesterhelt

• 1992 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

• 1993 – Max Perutz

• 1994 – Helmut Beinert

• 1995 – August Böck

• 1996 – Walter Jakob Gehring

• 1997 – Klaus Weber

• 1998 – Wolfgang Baumeister

• 1999 – Kurt Wüthrich

• 2000 – Walter Neupert

• 2001 – James Rothmann

• 2002 – Kurt von Figura

• 2003 – Alfred Wittinghofer

• 2004 – Tom Rapoport

• 2005 – Axel Ullrich

• 2006 – Konrad Sandhoff

• 2007 – Robert Weinberg

• 2008 – Susan Lindquist

• 2009 – Franz-Ulrich Hartl

• 2010 – Ari Helenius

• 2011 – Peter Walter

• 2012 – Alexander Varshavsky

• 2013 – Randy Schekman

• 2014 – Rudolf Jaenisch

• 2015 – Nikolaus Pfanner

• 2016 – Emmanuelle Charpentier

• 2017 – Stefan Jentsch (posthumously)

• 2018 – Peter Hegemann

• 2019 – Marina Rodnina

• 2020 – Patrick Cramer

• 2021 – Petra Schwille

• 2022 – Stefanie Dimmeler

• 2023 – Matthias Mann