Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry ( Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry ) is an American science prize, which is awarded annually by Columbia University for outstanding achievements in the field of biology or biochemistry.

The award was established by an endowment from S. Gross Horwitz and is named in honor of his mother. The prize was first awarded in 1967.

The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize is one of the most prestigious science awards in America. Of the 94 winners received (November 2013) 44 (47%) later received the Nobel Prize in Medicine (33) or chemical (11).

Award winners

Albert Claude Harry Eagle Boris Ephrussi Seymour Benzer Charles Yanofsky Michael Heidelberger Elvin A. Kabat Henry Kunkel David H. Hubel Torsten Wiesel Frederick Sanger Aaron Klug Barbara McClintock Stanley Cohen (biochemist) Viktor Hamburger Mark Ptashne Erwin Neher Bert Sakmann Thomas Cech Stephen C. Harrison Richard R. Ernst Edward B. Lewis Donald Metcalf Philippa Marrack Leland H. Hartwell Clay Armstrong Bertil Hille Arnold J. Levine Pierre Chambon H. Robert Horvitz Avram Hershko Randy Schekman Roderick MacKinnon Roger D. Kornberg Joseph G. Gall Elizabeth Blackburn Arthur L. Horwich Victor Ambros Thomas J. Kelly (scientist) Bruce William Stillman Jeffrey C. Hall Michael W. Young Edvard Moser May-Britt Moser
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