The Heinrich Wieland Prize is an annual science award for research on lipid

Lipid

Lipids constitute a broad group of naturally occurring molecules that include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins , monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides, phospholipids, and others...

s in the fields of chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

, biochemistry

Biochemistry

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, physiology

Physiology

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 and clinical medicine

Clinical Medicine

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. It is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, and awarded by a board of trustees. The prize is named after the Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry Professor Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957), one of the leading lipid chemists of the first half of the 20th century.

Prize winners

• 1964: Ernst Klenk
• 1965: Wilhelm Stoffel
• 1966: no award presented
• 1967: Heinrich Wagener and Bruno Frosch
• 1968: David Adriaan van Dorp
  David Adriaan van Dorp
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• 1969: Werner Seubert
• 1970: Christian Bode and Harald Goebell
• 1971: Laurens L.M. van Deenen
• 1972: Heiner Greten and Kurt Oette
• 1973: Shosaku Numa
  Shosaku Numa
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• 1974: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein
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• 1975: Ernst Ferber and Klaus Resch
• 1976: Dietrich Seidel and Eckhart Schweizer
• 1977: Gerd Assmann and Helmut K. Mangold
• 1978: Olga Stein and Yechezkiel Stein
• 1979: Konrad Sandhoff
• 1980: H. Bryan Brewer and Barry Lewis
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• 1981: Bengt Samuelson
• 1982: Hansjörg Eibl and Robert William Mahley
• 1983: John M. Dietschy
• 1984: Olaf Adam and Gerhart Kurz
• 1985: Guy Ourisson
• 1986: Eugene P. Kennedy
• 1987: Akira Endo and Dietrich Keppler
• 1988: Lawrence C.B. Chan
• 1989: Ching-Hsien Huang
• 1990: James E. Rothman and Karel W. A. Wirtz
• 1991: Jan L. Breslow
• 1991: Wolfgang J. Schneider
• 1992: Lev D. Bergelson
• 1993: Walter Neupert
• 1994: Joachim Seelig
• 1995: Jean E. Schaffer and Dennis E. Vance
• 1996: Jeffrey M. Friedman
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• 1997: Bruce M. Spiegelman
• 1998: Thomas E. Willnow
• 1999: Ernst Heinz
• 2000: Lewis Clayton Cantley
• 2001: Felix Wieland
• 2002: Stephen O'Rahilly
• 2003: David J. Mangelsdorf
• 2004: Raphael Mechoulam
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   and Roger Nicoll
• 2005: Helen Hobbs
• 2006: Alois Fürstner
• 2007: Joachim Herz
• 2008: Markus Stoffel
• 2009: Steven Ley
• 2010: Nenad Ban