Lieben Prize
Encyclopedia
The Ignaz Lieben Prize is an annual Austria
n award for young scientists working in the fields of molecular biology
, chemistry
, or physics
.
The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian Nobel Prize
. It is similar in intent but somewhat older than the Nobel Prize. The Austrian merchant Ignaz L. Lieben, whose family supported many philanthropic activities, had stipulated in his testament that 6,000 florins should be used “for the common good”. In 1863 this money was given to the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize was instituted. Every three years, the sum of 900 florins was to be given to an Austrian scientist in the field of chemistry, physics, or physiology. This sum corresponded to roughly 40 per cent of the annual income of a university professor.
From 1900 on, the prize was offered on a yearly basis. The endowment was twice increased by the Lieben family. When the endowment had lost its value due to inflation after World War I
, the family transferred the necessary sum yearly to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
. But since the family was persecuted by the National Socialists, the prize was discontinued after the German Anschluss
of Austria in 1938.
In 2004 the Lieben prize was reinstated, with support from Isabel Bader and Alfred Bader (who was able to flee from Austria to Great Britain
at the age of fourteen in 1938). Now, the award amounts to US Dollar 36,000, and it is offered yearly to young scientists who work in Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
, the Czech Republic
, Hungary
, Slovakia
or Slovenia
(i.e., in one of the countries that were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a hundred years ago), and who work in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry, or physics.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n award for young scientists working in the fields of molecular biology
Molecular biology
Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
, 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....
, or physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
.
The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
. It is similar in intent but somewhat older than the Nobel Prize. The Austrian merchant Ignaz L. Lieben, whose family supported many philanthropic activities, had stipulated in his testament that 6,000 florins should be used “for the common good”. In 1863 this money was given to the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize was instituted. Every three years, the sum of 900 florins was to be given to an Austrian scientist in the field of chemistry, physics, or physiology. This sum corresponded to roughly 40 per cent of the annual income of a university professor.
From 1900 on, the prize was offered on a yearly basis. The endowment was twice increased by the Lieben family. When the endowment had lost its value due to inflation after World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, the family transferred the necessary sum yearly to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Sciences
An Academy of Sciences is a national academy or another learned society dedicated to sciences.In non-English speaking countries, the range of academic fields of the members of a national Academy of Science often includes fields which would not normally be classed as "science" in English...
. But since the family was persecuted by the National Socialists, the prize was discontinued after the German Anschluss
Anschluss
The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
of Austria in 1938.
In 2004 the Lieben prize was reinstated, with support from Isabel Bader and Alfred Bader (who was able to flee from Austria to Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
at the age of fourteen in 1938). Now, the award amounts to US Dollar 36,000, and it is offered yearly to young scientists who work in Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
or Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
(i.e., in one of the countries that were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a hundred years ago), and who work in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry, or physics.
Laureates
- 2010 Robert Kralovics
- 2009 Frank VerstraeteFrank VerstraeteFrank Verstraete is a Belgian quantum physicist who is working on the interface between quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. He is full professor at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2009.-References:...
- 2008 Csaba Pál
- 2007 Markus AspelmeyerMarkus AspelmeyerMarkus Aspelmeyer is a German quantum physicist.Aspelmeyer was born 1974 in the Bavarian town Schongau. He also attended the local school, where he received his abitur in 1993....
- 2006 Andrius Baltuska
- 2005 Ronald MicuraRonald MicuraRonald Micura is an Austrian chemist. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2005.Micura studied chemistry at the University of Linz where he also received his Ph. D in 1995. After a postdoc position at the University of Zurich and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology he became professor at the...
- 2004 Zoltan NusserZoltan NusserZoltan Nusser is a physiologist. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2004.He graduated from the University of Budapest, in 1992 and received his Ph.D in Physiology from Oxford University in 1995. He works at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest since 2000.-References:...
- 1937 Marietta BlauMarietta BlauMarietta Blau was an Austrian physicist. After having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls' high school run by the Association for the Extended Education of Women, she studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna from 1914 to 1918; her Ph. D...
and Hertha WambacherHertha WambacherHertha Wambacher was an Austrian physicist. After having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls' high school run by the Association for the Extended Education of Women in 1922, she studied first chemistry, then physics at the University of Vienna.Wambacher's dissertation at... - 1936 Franz Lippay and Richard Rössler
- 1935 Armin Dadieu
- 1934 Eduard Haschek
- 1933 Ferdinand Scheminzky
- 1932 Georg Koller
- 1931 Karl Höfler
- 1930 Wolf Johannes Müller
- 1929 Karl Przibram
- 1927 Otto PorschOtto PorschOtto Porsch 12 September 1875 – 2 January 1959) was an Austrian biologist.After his Ph.D he worked with Gottlieb Haberlandt in Graz and did his habilitation with Richard Wettstein in Vienna. He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz and later professor at the University...
and Gustav Klein - 1926 Adolf Franke
- 1925 Lise MeitnerLise MeitnerLise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...
- 1924 Otto LoewiOtto LoewiOtto Loewi was a German born pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's...
and Ernst Peter Pick - 1923 Otto von FürthOtto von FürthOtto von Fürth was an Austrian physician, physiologist and biochemist. Fürth studied at the University of Prague, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Berlin. He worked at the University of Vienna, the University of Prague and the University of Straßburg where received his...
- 1922 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
- 1921 Karl von FrischKarl von FrischKarl Ritter von Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz....
- 1920 Ernst SpäthErnst SpäthErnst Späth was an Austrian chemist.He was the first to synthesise Mescaline and was one of the first to synthesize cuscohygrine on a small scale with Hans Tuppy....
- 1919 Victor Franz Hess
- 1918 Eugen SteinachEugen SteinachEugen Steinach was a leading Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology.-Biography:He was born on January 28, 1861 in Austria....
- 1917 Wilhelm SchlenkWilhelm SchlenkWilhelm Johann Schlenk was a German chemist. He was born in Munich and also studied chemistry there. Schlenk succeeded Hermann Emil Fischer at the University of Berlin in 1919....
- 1916 Friedrich Adolf Paneth
- 1915 Wilhelm TrendelenburgWilhelm TrendelenburgErnst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg was a German physiologist.- References :...
- 1914 Fritz PreglFritz PreglFritz Pregl , was an Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background...
- 1913 Stefan MeyerStefan Meyer (physicist)Stefan Meyer was an Austrian physicist involved in research on radioactivity. He became director of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna and received the Lieben Prize in 1913 for his research on radium...
- 1912 Oswald Richter
- 1911 Friedrich EmichFriedrich EmichFriedrich Emich was an Austrian chemist. Emich is recognized as the founder of microchemistry. Together with his colleague at the University of Graz, Fritz Pregl he perfected the work in small scales analysis. Fritz Pregl was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1923 for his work on...
- 1910 Felix EhrenhaftFelix EhrenhaftFelix Ehrenhaft was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style...
- 1909 Eugen SteinachEugen SteinachEugen Steinach was a leading Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology.-Biography:He was born on January 28, 1861 in Austria....
- 1908 Paul FriedlaenderPaul Friedländer (chemist)Paul Friedländer was a German chemist best known for his research on derivates of indigo and isolation of Tyrian purple from Murex brandaris.-Life and work:...
- 1907 Hans BenndorfHans BenndorfHans Benndorf was an Austrian physicist who was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died in Graz. In 1895 he earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna, and subsequently became an assistant to Franz Serafin Exner...
- 1906 Arnold DurigArnold DurigArnold Durig was an Austrian physiologist. He very probably served as the model for the "impartial person" in Sigmund Freud's polemic booklet The Question of Lay Analysis: Conversations with an Impartial Person ....
- 1905 Rudolf WegscheiderRudolf WegscheiderRudolf Wegscheider was an Austrian chemist.Wegscheider studied chemistry and was the founder of the Austrian School of Chemistry. He taught at the University of Vienna, and from 1902 to 1931 he was departmental Chair. He was the chairman of the association of Austrian chemists from 1904 to...
and Hans Leopold MeyerHans Leopold MeyerHans Leopold Meyer 31 March 1871–28 November 1942) was an Austrian chemist. He was the brother of Stefan Meyer who also received the Lieben Prize. Hans Leopold Meyer studied at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Vienna University of Technology and University of Heidelberg he received... - 1904 Franz Schwab
- 1903 Josef Schaffer
- 1902 Josef HerzigJosef HerzigJosef Herzig was an Austrian chemist.Herzig was born in Sanok, Galicia, which at that time was part of Austria-Hungary. Herzig went to school in Breslau until 1874, started studying chemistry at the University of Vienna but joined August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin in the...
- 1901 Josef Liznar
- 1900 Theodor Beer and Oskar ZothOskar Zoth-References:...
- 1898 Konrad Natterer
- 1895 Josef Maria EderJosef Maria EderJosef Maria Eder 16 March 1855 – 18 October 1944) was an Austrian chemist who specialized in the chemistry of photography.-Life and work:Eder was born in Krems an der Donau in 1855. He studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology and at the University of Vienna...
and Eduard Valenta - 1892 Guido GoldschmiedtGuido GoldschmiedtGuido Goldschmiedt was an Austrian chemist. During his career, he collaborated with Bunsen in Heidelberg and Baeyer in Straßburg. In 1891, he became full professor at the University of Vienna and later at the University of Prague...
- 1889 Sigmund Ritter Exner von EwartenSigmund ExnerSigmund Exner-Ewarten was an Austrian physiologist who was a native of Vienna. He was the son of philosopher Franz Serafin Exner , and had three renowned brothers; law professor Adolf Exner , physicist Karl Exner and physicist Franz Exner .He studied in Vienna under Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ,...
- 1886 Zdenko Hans SkraupZdenko Hans SkraupZdenko Hans Skraup was a Czech Austrian chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.-Life:...
- 1883 Victor Ritter Ebner von Rofenstein
- 1880 Hugo WeidelHugo WeidelHugo Weidel 13 November 1849 – 7 June 1899) was an Austrian chemist known for inventing Weidel's reaction and describing the structure of organic compound niacin. For his achievements, Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880.-Life and work:...
- 1877 Sigmund Ritter Exner von EwartenSigmund ExnerSigmund Exner-Ewarten was an Austrian physiologist who was a native of Vienna. He was the son of philosopher Franz Serafin Exner , and had three renowned brothers; law professor Adolf Exner , physicist Karl Exner and physicist Franz Exner .He studied in Vienna under Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ,...
- 1874 Eduard LinnemannEduard LinnemannEduard Linnemann was a German chemist.He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Karlsruhe. After he received his Ph.D. he worked with Kekulé at the University of Ghent and with Pebal at the University of Lemberg...
- 1871 Leander DitscheinerLeander DitscheinerLeander Ditscheiner 4 January 1839 – 1 February 1905) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, best known for his research on birefringence.-Life and work:...
- 1868 Eduard LinnemannEduard LinnemannEduard Linnemann was a German chemist.He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Karlsruhe. After he received his Ph.D. he worked with Kekulé at the University of Ghent and with Pebal at the University of Lemberg...
and Karl von Than - 1865 Josef Stefan