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.^[1]

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

Medallists

Source: GBM

1963 – Feodor Lynen
1965 – Kurt Mothes [de]
1968 – Michael Sela
1969 – Hans Adolf Krebs & Carl Martius [de]
1972 – Ernst Klenk
1973 – Hans Leo Kornberg
1974 – Theodor Bücher [de]
1975 – Helmut Holzer [de]
1976 – Heinz-Günter Wittmann
1977 – Robert Huber
1978 – Wilhelm Stoffel [de]
1979 – Lothar Jaenicke [de]
1980 – Charles Weissmann
1981 – Martin Klingenberg [de]
1982 – Rodulf Rott [de]
1983 – Günter Blobel
1984 – Rudolf K. Thauer
1985 – Peter Starlinger [de]
1986 – Julius Adler
1987 – Shosaku Numa
1988 – Gottfried Schatz
1989 – Hans Georg Zachau [de]
1990 – Horst Tobias Witt [de]
1991 – Dieter Oesterhelt
1992 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1993 – Max Perutz
1994 – Helmut Beinert
1995 – August Böck [de]
1996 – Walter Jakob Gehring
1997 – Klaus Weber
1998 – Wolfgang Baumeister
1999 – Kurt Wüthrich
2000 – Walter Neupert [de]
2001 – James Rothmann [Wikidata]
2002 – Kurt von Figura [de]
2003 – Alfred Wittinghofer
2004 – Tom Rapoport
2005 – Axel Ullrich
2006 – Konrad Sandhoff [de]
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 [de]
2016 – Emmanuelle Charpentier
2017 – Stefan Jentsch (posthumously) ^[2]
2018 – Peter Hegemann^[3]
2019 – Marina Rodnina^[4]
2020 – Patrick Cramer^[5]
2021 – Petra Schwille^[6]
2022 – Stefanie Dimmeler^[7]
2023 – Matthias Mann

Medallists

See also

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