Prize winners
Nobel laureates
- Herta Müller, novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature (2009) (Professor)[1][2]
- Gerhard Ertl, physicist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2007) (Professor)[3][4]
- Reinhard Selten, economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) (Professor)[5][6]
- Ernst Ruska, physicist and Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) (Professor)[7][8]
- Ulrich Cubasch, climate scientist and co-author of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007(Professor)[9][10]
Leibniz Prize winners
The DFG has awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to outstanding German scientists every year since 1985. As the most acclaimed award for research achievements in Germany, it comes with a research grant of 2.5 million € to be used within seven years.[11]
- Volker Erdmann, Biochemistry (1987)[12]
- Wolfram Saenger, Crystallography (1987)[13]
- Randolf Menzel, Neuroscience (1991), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[14][15]
- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Japanese Studies (1992)[16]
- Jürgen Kocka, History (1992)[17]
- Johann Mulzer, Organic chemistry (1994)[18]
- Peter Schaefer, Jewish Studies (1994)[19][20]
- Emo Welzl, Computer science (1995)[21]
- Onno Oncken, Geology (1998)[22]
- Regine Hengge-Aronis, Microbiology (1998)[23]
- Joachim Küpper, Romance studies (2001), member of the Leopoldina[24]
- Günter M. Ziegler, Mathematics (2001), member of the Leopoldina, current president of the Free University of Berlin[25][26]
- Hélène Esnault, Mathematics (2003)[27]
- Rupert Klein, Mathematics (2003)[28]
- Gerhard Huisken (2003)[29][30]
- Gabriele Brandstetter, Theater studies (2004), member of the Leopoldina[31]
- Gyburg Radke, Ancient Greek (2006), youngest ever person to receive the Leibniz prize[32]
- Beatrice Gründler Arabic Studies (2016)[33]
- Benjamin List, Organocatalysis (2016)[34]
Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International
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