Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Award
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Award by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is a annually science prize worth 30,000 euros. It is awarded to a "distinguished scientist whose research achievements have opened new and promising lines of research." The prize is given for outstanding scientific achievements in the fields of humanities and social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, life sciences and medicine, and engineering sciences. The award ceremony coincides with a Leibniztag plenary lecture in commemoration of Gottfried Leibniz, in which the award winner describes his or her research.
Award winners
Source:- 1996 – Marius Grundmann and Richard Nötzel
- 1997 – David Vokrouhlický
- 1998 – Thomas Kaufmann
- 1999 – Franz-Ulrich Hartl
- 2000 – Axel Meyer
- 2001 – Achim von Keudell
- 2002 – Albrecht Koschorke
- 2003 – Jürgen Gauß
- 2004 – Frédéric Merkt
- 2005 – Michael Schön
- 2006 – Heino Falcke
- 2007 – Martin Haspelmath
- 2008 – Miloš Vec
- 2009 – Matthias Staudacher
- 2010 – Michael Kramer
- 2011 – Martin Mulsow
- 2012 – Bernhard Schölkopf
- 2013 – Helmut Cölfen
- 2014 – Andreas Bausch
- 2016 – Peter Scholze
- 2018 – Hannah Monyer
- 2020 – Peter R. Schreiner