- Lieben Prize
The Ignaz Lieben Prize is an annual
Austria n award for young scientists working in the fields ofmolecular biology ,chemistry , orphysics .The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian
Nobel Prize . It is similar in intent but somewhat older than the Nobel Prize. The Austrian merchant Ignaz L. Lieben, whose family supported many philanthropic activities, had stipulated in his testament that 6,000 florins should be used “for the common good”. In 1863 this money was given to the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize was instituted. Every three years, the sum of 900 florins was to be given to an Austrian scientist in the field of chemistry, physics, or physiology. This sum corresponded to roughly 40 per cent of the annual income of a university professor.From 1900 on, the prize was offered on a yearly basis. The endowment was twice increased by the Lieben family. When the endowment had lost its value due to inflation after
World War I , the family transferred the necessary sum yearly to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. But since the family was persecuted by the National Socialists, the prize was discontinued after the GermanAnschluss of Austria in 1938.In 2004 the Lieben prize was reinstated, with support from Isabel Bader and Alfred Bader (who was able to flee from Austria to
Great Britain at the age of fourteen in 1938). Now, the award amounts to US Dollar 18,000, and it is offered yearly to young scientists who work in Austria,Bosnia-Herzegovina ,Croatia , theCzech Republic ,Hungary ,Slovakia orSlovenia (i.e., in one of the countries that were part of theAustro-Hungarian Empire a hundred years ago), and who work in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry, or physics.Laureates
*2007
Markus Aspelmeyer
*2006Andrius Baltuska
*2005Ronald Micura
*2004Zoltan Nusser *1937
Marietta Blau andHertha Wambacher
*1936Franz Lippay andRichard Rössler
*1935Armin Dadieu
*1934Eduard Haschek
*1933Ferdinand Scheminzky
*1932Georg Koller
*1931Karl Höfler
*1930Wolf Johannes Müller
*1929Karl Przibram
*1927Otto Porsch andGustav Klein
*1926Adolf Franke
*1925Lise Meitner
*1924Otto Loewi andErnst Peter Pick
*1923Otto von Fürth
*1922Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
*1921Karl von Frisch
*1920Ernst Späth
*1919Victor Franz Hess
*1918Eugen Steinach
*1917Wilhelm Schlenk
*1916Friedrich Adolf Paneth
*1915Wilhelm Trendelenburg
*1914Fritz Pregl
*1913Stefan Meyer
*1912Oswald Richter
*1911Friedrich Emich
*1910Felix Ehrenhaft
*1909Eugen Steinach
*1908 Paul Friedlaender
*1907Hans Benndorf
*1906Arnold Durig
*1905Rudolf Wegscheider andHans Meyer
*1904Franz Schwab
*1903Josef Schaffer
*1902Josef Herzig
*1901Josef Liznar
*1900Theodor Beer andOskar Zoth
*1898Konrad Natterer
*1895Josef Maria Eder andEduard Valenta
*1892Guido Goldschmiedt
*1889 Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten
*1886Zdenko Hans Skraup
*1883Victor Ritter Ebner von Rofenstein
*1880Hugo Weidel
*1877 Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten
*1874Eduard Linnemann
*1871Leander Ditscheiner
*1868Eduard Linnemann andKarl von Than
*1865Josef Stefan External links
* [http://www.oeaw.ac.at/stipref/ Ignaz L. Lieben Award]
* [http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/ilp/ Ignaz-Lieben-Projekt]
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