Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis
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The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize), in honor and memory of the German physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz was a German physicist. He made contributions to nuclear spectroscopy, coincidence measurement techniques, radioactive tracers for biochemistry and medicine, and neutron optics...

, is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, German Ministry of Education and Research), and it is awarded by a selection committee appointed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.-Function:...

(DFG, German Research Foundation) and the BMBF. Annually, there are six recipients of the prize and each receives 16,000 Euros.

Nominees for the award may be put forward by:
  • Members of the DFG Review Boards
  • Research universities of the Federal Republic of Germany
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  • The Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities)
  • The Max Planck Society
    Max Planck Society
    The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes publicly funded by the federal and the 16 state governments of Germany....

  • The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
  • The Fraunhofer Society
    Fraunhofer Society
    The Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 60 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science . It employs around 18,000, mainly scientists and engineers, with an annual research budget of about €1.65 billion...

  • The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community
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