Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Award

The Klungkung Wilhelmy Weberbank price is a science prize, which is awarded to outstanding young German scientists in chemistry and physics in alternate years, which should have not exceeded the age of 40.

The selection of winners is made by standing committees at the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics at the Free University of Berlin, supplemented by professors from other universities, with suggestions of colleagues at home and abroad as well as scientific advice from top international researchers will be involved in the decision. Self-nominations will not be considered. About the selection proposal to decide the foundations: the Otto Klung Foundation at the Free University of Berlin, Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation and Weberbank Foundation. Together declared goal of the foundations is to intensify the promotion of scientific excellence and reward those works that are pioneering and enjoy international recognition. Five winners have received the Nobel Prize.

The 1973 Otto Klungkung Foundation for the first time the award is one thanks to the cooperation of the three foundations since 2007, the most valuable privately funded scientific awards in Germany. The award - for many years in early November - is public.

Award winners

Awarded for the development of Fourier - domain mode -locked laser and the improvements thus achieved in medical imaging using optical coherence tomography.

Honored for his achievements in the field of organometallic chemistry and the specific fluorination of biomedically relevant molecules.

Honored for his work in the field of biophysics, in particular the development of experiments on synthetic evolution and biophysical applications of thermophoresis.

Honored for his work in the field of functional organic nanostructures and of photo-switchable units.

Honored for his work in numerical astrophysics, in particular the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes.

Honored for his work on the development of ORCA - a program package for highly efficient calculation of the electronic structure of large molecules.

Honored for his work with proof of superfluidity in ultracold Fermi gases.

Honored for his work on synthesis and application of novel, very weakly coordinating anions.

Award for his work on quantum physics of atomic Bose -Einstein condensates in optical lattice potentials and to Bose -Einstein condensation of molecular and fermionic quantum gases.

Honored for his work at the interface of synthetic organic chemistry and biology in the development of automated solid- phase synthesis of complex carbohydrates.

Honored for his work on the biophysical adhesion and mechanics of cells.

Honored for his work in the discovery and development of RNA interference method.

Denied Award 2002

Honored for his work in the field of main group chemistry, particularly of phosphorus, silicon and sodium.

Award for his work on nonlinear dynamics in low-dimensional electronic systems.

Honored for his work on the structure and function of high-affinity ribonucleic acids.

Award for his work on quantum optics, in particular to quantum tomography ( complete reconstruction of quantum states ) and particularly low-interference measurements using highly squeezed light ( quantum - nondemolition ).

Honored for his work on the metal-mediated enantioselective oxidation in organic synthesis.

Honored for his work on the ultrafast dynamics in molecules and semiconductors.

Honored for his work on the synthesis and Strukturaufklärugen in the phosphorus - nitrogen system.

Honored for his work on novel electronic phenomena in semiconductor devices, in which the free movement of electrons is changed by artificial periodic structures (Weiss oscillators ).

Honored for his work on the ubiquitin- dependent protein degradation.

Honored for his work in quantum field theory.

Honored for his work on the transition from isolated metal atoms to metallic solids.

Prizes for her work for the study of magnetism with circularly polarized synchrotron radiation.

Honored for his work on the isolation, structure elucidation and synthesis acetogeniner isoquinoline alkaloids.

Honored for his work on the discovery of a new class of superconductors with hitherto unparalleled high transition temperatures.

- Nobel Prize in 1987 together with Karl Alex Müller

Honored for his work on the crystallization and structure determination of the photosynthetic system I.

- Nobel Prize in 1988 together with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber

Awarded for the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

- Nobel Prize in 1998 together with Daniel Chee Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin

Honored for his work on the interpretation of kinetic phenomena at the molecular level.

Honored for his contribution to the development of the scanning tunneling microscope.

- Nobel Prize in 1986 together with Heinrich Rohrer

Award for his work on organometallic chemistry.

Award for his work on economies of scale and Konforminvarianz and for lattice gauge theory.

Award for his work on physical organic chemistry, especially the chemistry in the mass spectrometer.

Honored for his work on the construction of the first narrowband tunable dye laser and the development of Doppler-free laser spectroscopy and the invention of the laser cooling of atoms.

- Nobel Prize in 2005 along with Roy J. Glauber and John Lewis Hall

From 1973 to 1978, the time of the Otto- Klungkung Foundation or alone awarded Otto Klung prize was awarded as Nachwuchsförderpreis the disciplines of chemistry and physics at the Free University of Berlin for outstanding academic achievement at graduate students and postdoctoral students:

Klaus -Peter Dinse (Physics 1973), Wolf -Dietrich Hunnius and Rolf Minkwitz (Chemistry 1974), Michael Grunze (Chemistry 1975), Günther dungeon (Physics 1976), Wolfgang Lubitz (Chemistry 1977), Andreas Gaupp (Physics 1978).